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Learning Force.com Application Development

You're reading from   Learning Force.com Application Development Use the Force.com platform to design and develop real-world, cutting-edge cloud applications

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2015
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781782172796
Length 406 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Chamil Madusanka Chamil Madusanka
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Table of Contents (15) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Getting Started with Force.com FREE CHAPTER 2. Building the Data Model 3. Building the User Interface 4. Designing Apps for Multiple Users and Protecting Data 5. Implementing Business Processes 6. Data Management on the Force.com Platform 7. Custom Coding with Apex 8. Building Custom Pages with Visualforce 9. Analytics as a Service with the Force.com Platform 10. E-mail Services with the Force.com Platform 11. Building Public Websites with Force.com Sites 12. Deploying the Force.com Application A. Force.com Tools Index

Development tools

Development tools are the tools that are used to develop the application, including some portion of declarative (point-click) development (creating objects and fields using metadata) and programming development (Apex classes, triggers, and Visualforce pages). The development tools are as follows:

  • Force.com IDE: The Force.com IDE is an open source (you can download the source from https://github.com/forcedotcom/idecore) Eclipse-based tool, which can be used to create, modify, and deploy the Force.com application from a local computer. It provides a full-featured, collaborative development environment for coding, compiling and testing, and version controlling. The major features of the Force.com IDE are as follows:
    • Writing and managing Apex classes and triggers.
    • Unit tests can be executed with the Apex Test Runner and can provide the code coverage report.
    • Locating the syntax errors while you are writing the code and providing error messages and debugging output.
    • Creating, modifying...
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