Book description
Master Force.com, Today’s Fastest, Most Flexible Cloud Development Platform
With Salesforce.com’s Force.com platform, you can build and deploy powerful cloud-based enterprise applications faster than ever before. Now, Jason Ouellette gives you all the practical, technical guidance you need to make the most of the newest Force.com releases in your own custom cloud applications.
Throughout, he adds new code and updated best practices for rapidly prototyping, building, and testing production-quality Force.com solutions. This edition’s extensive new coverage includes Developer Console, JSON, Streaming and Tooling APIs, Bulk API, Force.com Canvas, REST integration, support for Web MVC frameworks, Dynamic Apex and Visualforce, and an all-new chapter on mobile user interfaces.
Ouellette covers the entire platform: UIs, database design, analytics, security, and many other topics. His code examples emphasize maintainability, flexibility, and seamless integration—and you can run and adapt all of them with a free Force.com Developer Edition account. Coverage includes:
Leveraging Force.com’s customizable infrastructure to deliver advanced Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) solutions
Understanding Force.com’s unique processes, tools, and architecture
Developing a complete application, from requirements and use cases through deployment
Using the Force.com database as a framework for highly flexible, maintainable applications
Applying Force.com’s baked-in security, including user identity, data ownership, and fine-grained access control
Constructing powerful business logic with Apex, SOQL, and SOSL
Adopting asynchronous actions, Single Page Applications, and other advanced features in Web user interfaces
Building intuitive user interfaces with Visualforce, and extending them to public-facing websites and mobile devices
Creating smartphone/tablet-friendly apps with HTML5 and Visualforce
Performing massive data-intensive tasks offline with Batch Apex
Using Force.com integration options, including REST, SOAP, Canvas, and the Streaming, Bulk, Tooling, and Metadata APIs
Developing internal social applications with Force.com’s Chatter collaboration tools
If you’re already building Web or mobile applications, take your next giant step into enterprise cloud development—with Development with the Force.com Platform, Third Edition.
All code examples in this book are available on Github at http://goo.gl/fjRqMX, and as a Force.com IDE project on Github at https://github.com/jmouel/dev-with-force-3e.
Table of contents
- About This eBook
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Praise for Development with the Force.com Platform, Third Edition
- Dedication Page
- Contents at a Glance
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author
- Preface
- Editor’s Note: We Want to Hear from You!
- 1. Introducing Force.com
- 2. Database Essentials
- 3. Database Security
- 4. Business Logic
- 5. Advanced Business Logic
- 6. User Interfaces
- 7. Advanced User Interfaces
- 8. Mobile User Interfaces
- 9. Batch Processing
- 10. Integration with Force.com
- 11. Advanced Integration
- 12. Social Applications
- Index
Product information
- Title: Development with the Force.com Platform: Building Business Applications in the Cloud, Third Edition
- Author(s):
- Release date: December 2013
- Publisher(s): Addison-Wesley Professional
- ISBN: 9780133511611
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