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

The MuleSoft platform

The MuleSoft platform from Salesforce allows your customers to connect to a wide variety of APIs, not just those exposed via the Salesforce Platform and your application, but ones from other platforms and products available throughout the industry. It contains many connectors so that it is easy for customers to integrate many different solutions together into one set of APIs.

MuleSoft contains a strong orchestration engine that allows processes to be described with conditional logic and some level of programmatic transformation through its DataWeave scripting language. DataWeave takes one or more inputs in varying data formats and results in a single transformed output in varying data formats.

The DataWeave transformation language is also available (as a Developer Preview at the time of writing) to Apex developers both for use within your packaged application and logic that might be used by your customers to integrate with your application data.

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