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Salesforce Platform Enterprise Architecture- fourth edition

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

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781804619773
Length 712 pages
Edition 4th Edition
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Andrew Fawcett Andrew Fawcett
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Table of Contents (23) Chapters Close

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

Calling the Domain layer

The Domain layer is positioned with respect to visibility and dependency below the Service layer. This, in practice, means that Domain classes should not be called directly from the execution context code, such as Visualforce controllers, Lightning Web Component controllers, or Batch Apex, as it is the Service layer’s responsibility to be the sole entry point for business process application logic.

That being said, we saw that the Domain layer also encapsulates an object’s behavior as records are manipulated by binding Apex Trigger events to methods on the Domain class. As such, Apex Triggers technically form another point of invocation.

Finally, there is a third caller type for the Domain layer, and this is another Domain class. Restrict your Domain class callers to the following contexts only:

  • Apex Triggers: This calls via the fflib_SObjectDomain.handleTrigger method.
  • Service layer: This layer directly creates an instance...
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