Force.com Platform - The Big Picture
A high level developer's perspective of the Force.com application development platform; it's metadata driven framework, services layer and more.
What you'll learn
Salesforce.com is best known as a web based Sales and Service application that touts itself as cloud based Software as a Service CRM. A more companies come to rely on it every day; there is a growing opportunity and need for traditional developers to understand how to develop on the platform. Not as visible is the metadata driven application development framework upon which the CRM features are built, and the ever growing collection of services provided by its Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). Both allow for extremely rapid application development, as well as sophisticated integration with external systems. This course will provide a perspective of the platform's depth and breadth, and show the big picture of what it can really do, and what you can do with it.
Table of contents
- Module Objective 1m
- Force.com Is PaaS 2m
- Architectural Visuals 5m
- What Makes Force.com SOA 6m
- The Force.com API Overview 1m
- The SOAP API 2m
- The REST API 1m
- The BULK (REST) API 1m
- The Metadata (SOAP) API 1m
- The Streaming (REST) API 1m
- Apex SOAP and REST APIs 1m
- Chatter REST API 1m
- The AJAX Toolkit 1m
- API Considerations 2m
About the author
Don Robins is a well known Salesforce MVP, instructor, author, and speaker. A custom business application developer for more decades than he cares to admit, he focuses on Salesforce technical instruction and knowledge sharing. Certified as a Platform II Developer and an award winning Salesforce Instructor, he's presented and taught at annual Dreamforce conferences since 2010. He delivers Salesforce developer classes and workshops around the US and abroad, and manages a team of instructors ... more