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Force.com Enterprise Architecture

You're reading from   Force.com Enterprise Architecture Blend industry best practices to architect and deliver packaged Force.com applications that cater to enterprise business needs

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2014
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ISBN-13 9781782172994
Length 402 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (13) Chapters Close

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. Providing Integration and Extensibility 10. Asynchronous Processing and Big Data Volumes 11. Source Control and Continuous Integration Index

Chapter 6. Application Domain Layer

The objects used by your application represent its domain. Unlike other database platforms where the record data is, by default, hidden from end users, the Force.com platform displays your record data through the standard Salesforce UI, reports, dashboards, and Salesforce1 mobile application. Surfacing the labels and relationships, you give your objects and fields directly to the end user. From the moment you create your first object, you start to define your application's domain, just as Salesforce Standard Objects represent the CRM application domain.

Martin Fowler's Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture also recognizes this concept as a means of code encapsulation to combine the data expressed by each object with behaviors written in code that affect or interact with that data. This could be Apex Trigger code, providing defaulting and validation, or code awarding championship points to contestant records or checking rules...

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