You're reading from Salesforce Platform Enterprise Architecture- fourth edition A must-read guide to help you architect and deliver packaged applications for enterprise needs

Product type Paperback

Published in Mar 2023

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781804619773

Length 712 pages

Edition 4th Edition

Languages

Java

Tools

Salesforce

Concepts

Solution Architecture

Author (1):

Andrew Fawcett

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Table of Contents (23) Chapters

Preface

1. Part I: Key Concepts for Application Development

2. Building and Publishing Your Application FREE CHAPTER

3. Leveraging Platform Features

4. Application Storage

5. Apex Execution and Separation of Concerns

6. Part II: Backend Logic Patterns

7. Application Service Layer

8. Application Domain Layer

9. Application Selector Layer

10. Additional Languages, Compute, and Data Services

11. Part III: Developing the Frontend

12. Building User Interfaces

13. User Interfaces and the Lightning Component Framework

14. Part IV: Extending, Scaling, and Testing an Application

15. Providing Integration and Extensibility

16. Asynchronous Processing and Big Data Volumes

17. Unit Testing

18. Source Control and Continuous Integration

19. Integrating with External Services

20. Adding AI with Einstein

21. Other Books You May Enjoy

22. Index

Summary

In this chapter, we reviewed enterprise application integration and extensibility requirements through the eyes of a persona known as Developer X. By using this persona, you can ensure that your API tracks real use cases and requirements, much like your UI designs.

When defining your API strategy, keep in mind the benefits of the standard Salesforce APIs, how to evangelize them, and the significant investment Salesforce puts into them to provide access to the information stored in your Custom Objects. We have also seen that platform tools such as Lightning App Builder and Flow can be extended with embedded functionality from your package, which can be accessed without the need for code. Platform Events are also a use case for considering an asynchronous, loosely coupled API to allow notifications to be sent from your application and data feeds into your application.

When needed, leverage your Service layer to create application APIs on- and/or off-platform using Apex...