Apex Design Patterns: Harness the power of Apex design patterns to build robust and scalable code architectures on the Force.com platform - Softcover

Anshul Verma; Jitendra Zaa

Softcover

ISBN 10: 178217365X ISBN 13: 9781782173656

Publisher: Packt Publishing, 2016

Synopsis

Harness the power of Apex Design patterns to build robust and scalable code architecture on the Force.com platform

About This Book

• Apply Creational, Structural and behavioural patterns in Apex to fix governor limit issues.
• Have a grasp of the anti patterns to be taken care in Apex which could have adverse effect on the application.
• The authors, Jitendra Zaa is a salesforce MVP and Anshul Verma has 12+ years of experience in the area of application development.

Who This Book Is For

If you are a competent developer with working knowledge of Apex, and now want to deep dive into the world of Apex design patterns to optimize the application performance, then this book is for you. Prior knowledge of Salesforce and Force.com platform is recommended.

What You Will Learn

• Apply OOPs principal in Apex to design a robust and efficient solution to address various facets to a business problem
• Get to grips with the benefits and applicability of using different design patterns in Apex
• Solve problems while instantiating, structuring and giving dynamic behavior to Apex classes
• Understand the implementation of creational, structural, behavioral, concurrency and anti-patterns in your application
• Follow the Apex best practices to resolve governor limit issues
• Get clued up about the Inheritance, abstract classes, polymorphism in Apex to deal with the object mechanism
• Master various design patterns and determine the best out of them
• Explore the anti patterns that could not be applied to Apex and their appropriate solutions

In Detail

Apex is an on-demand programming language providing a complete set of features for building business applications - including data models and objects to manage data. Apex being a proprietor programming language from Salesforce to be worked with multi tenant environment is a lot different than traditional OOPs languages like Java and C#. It acts as a workflow engine for managing collaboration of the data between users, a user interface model to handle forms and other interactions, and a SOAP API for programmatic access and integration.

Apex Design Patterns gives you an insight to several problematic situations that can arise while developing on Force.com platform and the usage of Design patterns to solve them. Packed with real life examples, it gives you a walkthrough from learning design patterns that Apex can offer us, to implementing the appropriate ones in your own application. Furthermore, we learn about the creational patterns that deal with object creation mechanism and structural patterns that helps to identify the relationship between entities. Also, the behavioural and concurrency patterns are put forward explaining the communication between objects and multi-threaded programming paradigm respectively. We later on, deal with the issues regarding structuring of classes, instantiating or how to give a dynamic behaviour at a runtime, with the help of anti-patterns. We learn the basic OOPs principal in polymorphic and modular way to enhance its capability. Also, best practices of writing Apex code are explained to differentiate between the implementation of appropriate patterns. This book will also explain some unique patterns that could be applied to get around governor limits.

By the end of this book, you will be a maestro in developing your applications on Force.com for Salesforce

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About the Author

Jitendra Zaa Jitendra Zaa has been working on the Salesforce platform since 2008. He has extensively worked on Java and .NET-based enterprise applications. He also has experience in working with multiple JavaScript libraries, web frameworks, ETL tools, and databases. He is an expert in designing and implementing integrations of Salesforce with external systems. He is a regular speaker at the world’s biggest developer event, Dreamforce, mostly in developer track. Because of his contributions to the Salesforce community, he has also been awarded the Salesforce MVP title. He has more than eight Salesforce certifications and works as a Salesforce technical architect. He owns one of the most viewed Salesforce developer blogs (http://www.JitendraZaa.com), formerly, http://Shivasoft.in. You can follow him on Twitter at @JitendraZaa.

Edition details

• Publisher: Packt Publishing
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 178217365X
• ISBN 13: 9781782173656
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 235