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Learning Apex Programming

You're reading from   Learning Apex Programming Create business applications using Apex to extend and improve the usefulness of the Salesforce1 Platform

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2015
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ISBN-13 9781782173977
Length 302 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Preface 1. Apex Assumptions and Comparisons 2. Apex Limits FREE CHAPTER 3. More and Later 4. Triggers and Classes 5. Visualforce Development with Apex 6. Exposing Force.com to the World 7. Use Case – Integration with Google Calendar 8. Creating a Property Management Application 9. Test Coverage Index

My turn!


Up to this point, we have been looking at how to allow other systems and external guests to interact with our data and customization on the Salesforce1 Platform. Now, it's our turn to talk to other systems! Introducing Callouts. These are HttpRequests that allow Force.com to perform programmatic requests over the Internet to available web service APIs such as Google Maps, Google Calendar (we'll show you how in Chapter 7, Use Case—Integration with Google Calendar), payment processors (we'll show you how in Chapter 8, Creating a Property Management Application), and others. Plus, as an added benefit, we'll show you how to connect back to the web services that we just worked on together, and test them right from within the same instance of Salesforce. Let's get started!

Permissions again…

You'd think we could just talk to anyone we wanted, but Salesforce expects you to play the parenting role yet again. Just like you have to configure profiles for accessing data in Salesforce, you must...

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