Reviewing your integration and extensibility needs

Regardless of if you are reading this book as an ISV developer or a developer within an organization, being able to deliver integration and extensibility is important. Even as an application that will not be shared beyond your organization, consider that not every business requirement needs to result in an enhancement to your application. Other teams, or even other applications you build or purchase, can take advantage of the integration and extensibility you enable to ensure applications do not get overloaded with complexity and stay true to their intended scope and focus. This chapter continues to discuss the use of packaging, which has a key advantage in managing the versioning of APIs exposed by your application. However, managed packages are not essential to the other aspects of integration and extensibility discussed.

Before diving into the different ways in which you can provide APIs to those integrating or extending your...