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

Understanding options for outbound integrations

In the following sections, I am categorizing outbound integrations accordingly:

Data integrations: When there is a need to access external databases or data stored in a relational form, this is called data integration. A new type of object known as an External Object is used to reflect external data in the Salesforce Platform.
Service integrations: When there is a need to access external services that perform some form of compute or complex task, this is called service integration. These services are provided using an Open API (also known as Swagger) specification. The External Services feature can be used to import such services for use by Flow and Apex.

Chapter 8, Additional Languages, Compute, and Data Services, also included an example of this kind of service, as part of a broader website and API use case within that chapter. You may also find that example useful, though this sample is intentionally simplistic...