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Force.com Enterprise Architecture

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Product type Paperback

Published in Mar 2017

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781786463685

Length 504 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Languages

Apex

Tools

Force.com

Concepts

Application Development

Author (1):

Andrew Fawcett

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Table of Contents (23) Chapters

Force.com Enterprise Architecture - Second Edition

Credits

Foreword

About the Author

Acknowledgements

About the Reviewers

www.PacktPub.com

Customer Feedback

Preface

1. Building, Publishing, and Supporting Your Application FREE CHAPTER

2. Leveraging Platform Features

3. Application Storage

4. Apex Execution and Separation of Concerns

5. Application Service Layer

6. Application Domain Layer

7. Application Selector Layer

8. User Interface

9. Lightning

10. Providing Integration and Extensibility

11. Asynchronous Processing and Big Data Volumes

12. Unit Testing

13. Source Control and Continuous Integration

Index

External data sources

One of the downsides of moving data off the platform in an archive use case, or with not being able to replicate data onto the platform, is that the end users have to move between applications and logins to view data; this causes an overhead as the process and data is not connected.

The Salesforce Connect (previously known as Lightning Connect), a chargeable add-on feature of the platform, is the ability to surface external data within the Salesforce user interface via the so-called External Objects and External Data Sources configurations under Setup. They offer a similar functionality to Custom Objects, such as List View, Layouts and Custom Buttons. Currently Reports, and Dashboards are not supported, though it is possible to build custom report solutions via Apex, Visualforce or Lightning Components.

External Data Sources can be connected to existing OData based end points and secured through OAuth or Basic Authentication. Alternatively, Apex provides a Connector API...

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Authors (1)

Andrew Fawcett

Andrew Fawcett

Andrew Fawcett is a product management executive with a strong engineering background. With over 30 years of experience, he has held various roles, covering coding, architecture, tooling, benchmarking, and platform design. Currently, he is the VP of Product Management at Salesforce and holds the Salesforce Certifi ed Platform Developer II certifi cation. He leads product development for Heroku and Functions, blogs, contributes to open source, and has public-speaking experience. His interests include retro computing, amateur electronics, and LEGO collecting.

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