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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

Packages

After you develop your application, you need to distribute this application to other organizations. There are scenarios where you need to deploy the same set of components (an application) to multiple organizations. Most probably, these many organizations are outside of your company and you have to access the source and target organizations with high-level permissions. Packages are the medium for this type of deployment. A package is a collection of the Force.com platform components such as apps, objects, reports, or e-mail templates. These packages can be uploaded to be shared with others privately or posted on the Force.com AppExchange to be shared publicly. Mainly, there are two types of packages:

  • Managed packages
  • Unmanaged packages

The following diagram illustrates the concept between managed and unmanaged packages:

Packages

This diagram will be explained under the next two sub sections.

Managed packages

Managed packages allow us to create an upgradable distribution medium for Salesforce...

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