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

Client-server communication

Fundamentally, any communication between the user’s chosen device (the client) and the data and logic available on the Salesforce server occurs using the HTTP protocol. As a Lightning developer, you rarely get involved with the low-level aspects of forming the correct HTTP POST or HTTP GET request to the server and parsing the responses:

For LWC, the @wire protocol can be used to bind properties in your client-side controller to methods in your Apex code.
For Lightning Aura Components, the $A.enqueueAction JavaScript method can be called from a component’s client-side controller method to access the Apex code.
For Visualforce, the apex:commandButton and apex:actionFunction components can be used to invoke Apex code.

Salesforce also takes care of the security aspects for you, ensuring that the user is logged in and has a valid session to make the request to the server. There are also a number of options to perform...