10. Advanced Integration
This chapter focuses on integrating with Force.com from outside of the platform, using servers behind your corporate firewall or those of other cloud providers. This approach requires significantly more configuration and development effort than the integrations described in Chapter 9, “Integration,” but this extra work is rewarded with increased flexibility.
By integrating from outside of Force.com, you have complete control of the platforms, programming languages, and tools used in building the integration. The only requirement is that the technology supports SOAP messages over HTTP. By running the integration code on your own servers rather than Force.com, you are less likely to run into governor limits of Force.com ...
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