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

Understanding inbound and outbound integrations

Your approach to configuring integrations depends on the direction of the integration. This chapter uses the terms inbound and outbound to distinguish between those directions. The following outlines the definitions for both of these terms:

An inbound connection is an external system calling Salesforce APIs or those APIs you have created. While managing these types of connections, you can use features and APIs such as Connected Apps, OAuth, Certificates, and Permission Sets to control authorization and authentication. These features apply directly to APIs built with Apex; if you have built APIs with Heroku, as shown in Chapter 8, Additional Languages, Compute, and Data Services, these features are not available unless Salesforce is set up as an Identity Provider within your Heroku application.
An outbound connection is when Salesforce or your application code calls out to external system APIs. While managing these types...