Development with the Force.com Platform: Building Business Applications in the Cloud (Developer's Library)

About this book

Master Force.com Todays Fastest Most Flexible Cloud Development Platform With Salesforce.coms 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 editions 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 integrationand you can run and adapt all of them with a free Force.com Developer Edition account. Coverage includes: Leveraging Force.coms customizable infrastructure to deliver advanced Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) solutions Understanding Force.coms 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.coms 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.coms Chatter collaboration tools If youre already building Web or mobile applications take your next giant step into enterprise cloud developmentwith 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.