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

External data sources

One of the downsides of having data not stored on the platform is that the end users have to move between applications and logins to view data; this causes an overhead, as the process and data are not connected.

Salesforce Connect (previously known as Lightning Connect) is a chargeable add-on feature of the platform. It has the ability to surface external data within the Salesforce user interface via the so-called External Objects and External Data Sources configurations under Setup. They offer similar functionality to Custom Objects, such as List View, Layouts, Custom Buttons, and also Reports. Additionally, it has built-in support managing integrations with specific AWS technologies, such as DynamoDB and Athena (in pilot at the time of authoring this book). These specific integrations have been built as a result of a partnership between Salesforce and AWS – you can read more about this here: https://developer.salesforce.com/blogs/2022/06/salesforce...