Summary

This chapter has provided the basics of Force.com’s Streaming, Bulk, Canvas, Tooling, and Metadata APIs. Consider the following points for review as you move on to the next chapter:

Image The Streaming API allows you to get extremely granular and timely notifications about your data, at the level of changes to individual fields. On the other end of the spectrum, the Bulk API is optimized to move millions of records at a time in and out of the platform.

Image Canvas is a container technology for displaying your Web user interface within Force.com and ...

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