Book description
Architect and deliver packaged Force.com applications that cater to enterprise business needs
About This Book
- Explore the lightning framework, advanced application life cycle processes, and testing
- Use the Force.com platform to build truly integrated, scalable, and robustly engineered applications focused on enterprise-level customer demands
- Using the Lightning technology to deliver modern and responsive user experiences targeting multiple devices through Lightning Experience and Salesforce1 Mobile.
- Step-by-step, work on examples to get you building your own ready-to-install packaged application
Who This Book Is For
This book is for advanced Force.com developers and architects who need to understand the Salesforce platform from the perspective of enterprise-level requirements. A prior understanding of Apex and Visualforce is a must. Those familiar with other enterprise software ecosystems will also find this book ideal as they adopt Force.com.
What You Will Learn
- Package, install, test, and upgrade an application
- Define architecture-aligning data storage and functional requirements
- Develop Apex code that is easy to navigate, self-documenting, testable, robust, and organic
- Leverage your application’s clientagnostic Service layer backbone to support numerous platform areas
- Get the most from hosting your application within the Lightning Experience and Salesforce1 Mobile clients
- Apply querying, indexing, and asynchronous best practices
- Leverage mocking and dependency injection in your Apex tests
- Explore tips for developing advanced applications
In Detail
Companies of all sizes have seen the need for Force.com's architectural strategy focused on enabling their business objectives. Successful enterprise applications require planning, commitment, and investment in the best tools, processes, and features available.
This book will teach you how to architect and support enduring applications for enterprise clients with Salesforce by exploring how to identify architecture needs and design solutions based on industry standard patterns. There are several ways to build solutions on Force.com, and this book will guide you through a logical path and show you the steps and considerations required to build packaged solutions from start to finish. It covers all aspects, from engineering to getting your application into the hands of your customers, and ensuring that they get the best value possible from your Force.com application. You will get acquainted with extending tools such as Lightning App Builder, Process Builder, and Flow with your own application logic. In addition to building your own application API, you will learn the techniques required to leverage the latest Lightning technologies on desktop and mobile platforms.
Style and approach
The book takes a straightforward approach, taking apart the Force.com architecture for you to gain a deep understanding of how you can implement the Salesforce platform based on enterprise-level requirements.
Table of contents
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Force.com Enterprise Architecture - Second Edition
- Table of Contents
- Force.com Enterprise Architecture - Second Edition
- Credits
- Foreword
- About the Author
- Acknowledgements
- About the Reviewers
- www.PacktPub.com
- Customer Feedback
- Preface
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1. Building, Publishing, and Supporting Your Application
- Required organizations
- Introducing the book's sample application
- Package types and benefits
- Creating your first managed package
- Package dependencies and uploading
- Becoming a Salesforce partner and benefits
- Introduction to AppExchange and listings
- Installing and testing your package
- Licensing
- Providing support
- Customer metrics
- Trialforce and Test Drive
- Summary
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2. Leveraging Platform Features
- Packaging and upgradable components
- Understanding the custom field features
- Understanding the available security features
- Platform APIs
- Localization and translation
- Building customizable user interfaces
- E-mail customization with e-mail templates
- Process Builder, Workflow and Flow
- Social features and mobile
- Summary
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3. Application Storage
- Mapping out end user storage requirements
- Understanding the different storage types
- Reusing the existing Standard Objects
- Importing and exporting data
- Options for replicating and archiving data
- External data sources
- Summary
- 4. Apex Execution and Separation of Concerns
- 5. Application Service Layer
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6. Application Domain Layer
- Introducing the Domain layer pattern
- Implementation design guidelines
- Domain class template
- Implementing Domain Trigger logic
- Implementing custom Domain logic
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Object-oriented programming
- Creating a compliance application framework
- An Apex interface example
- Testing the Domain layer
- Calling the Domain layer
- Updating the FormulaForce package
- Summary
- 7. Application Selector Layer
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8. User Interface
- Which devices should you target?
- Introducing Salesforce Standard UIs and Lightning
- Leveraging the Salesforce standard UIs
- Generating downloadable content
- Generating printable content
- Client server communication
- Managing limits
- Object and field-level security
- Managing performance and response times
- Using the Service layer and database access
- Considerations for using JavaScript libraries
- Custom Publisher Actions
- Creating websites and communities
- Mobile application strategy
- Custom reporting and the Analytics API
- Updating the FormulaForce package
- Summary
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9. Lightning
- Building a basic Lightning user interface
- Lightning architecture
- FormulaForce Lightning Components
- Making components customizable
- Integrating with Lightning Experience
- Lightning Out and Visualforce
- Integrating with communities
- Testing
- Updating the FormulaForce package
- Summary
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10. Providing Integration and Extensibility
- Reviewing your integration and extensibility needs
- Force.com platform APIs for integration
- Application integration APIs
- Exposing Lightning Components
- Extending Process Builder and Visualflow
- Alignment with Force.com extensibility features
- Extending the application logic with Apex interfaces
- Summary
- 11. Asynchronous Processing and Big Data Volumes
- 12. Unit Testing
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13. Source Control and Continuous Integration
- Development workflow and infrastructure
- Developing with Source Control
- Hooking up Continuous Integration
- Releasing from Source Control
- Automated regression testing
- Summary
- Index
Product information
- Title: Force.com Enterprise Architecture - Second Edition
- Author(s):
- Release date: March 2017
- Publisher(s): Packt Publishing
- ISBN: 9781786463685
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