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Force.com Enterprise Architecture

You're reading from   Force.com Enterprise Architecture Architect and deliver packaged Force.com applications that cater to enterprise business needs

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786463685
Length 504 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Table of Contents (15) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Building, Publishing, and Supporting Your Application FREE CHAPTER 2. Leveraging Platform Features 3. Application Storage 4. Apex Execution and Separation of Concerns 5. Application Service Layer 6. Application Domain Layer 7. Application Selector Layer 8. User Interface 9. Lightning 10. Providing Integration and Extensibility 11. Asynchronous Processing and Big Data Volumes 12. Unit Testing 13. Source Control and Continuous Integration Index

Implementation design guidelines


As in the previous chapter, this section provides some general design and best practice guidelines around designing a Domain layer class for a given object. Note that some of these conventions are shared by the Service layer, as it also calls the Domain layer because conventions such as bulkification apply to the logic written here as well.

Naming conventions

The key principle of the Domain layer pattern is to lay out the code in such a way that it maps to the business domain of the application. In a Force.com application, this is typically supported by the Custom Objects. As such, it's important to clearly indicate which Domain layer class relates to which Standard or Custom Object:

  • Avoid acronyms: As per the previous chapter, try to avoid these unless it makes your class names unworkably long.

  • Class names: Use the plural name of your Custom Object for the name of your Domain class. This sets the tone for the scope of the record that the class deals with as...

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