Create custom business apps fast, with Salesforce's latest versions of Force.com, the Apex language, Visualforce UIs, and Web Services APIs
* Build powerful enterprise software in days or weeks, not the months or years J2EE/Java EE, .NET, or LAMP can require.
* Stop wasting time reinventing infrastructure: refocus on innovation.
* Discover all the capabilities Force.com offers - often, at no cost.
* Master Batch Apex, Chatter, and other new features.
* By top Force.com developer Jason Ouellette.
Using Force.com, developers can build and deploy powerful applications far more rapidly than traditional Java, .NET, or LAMP technology stacks permit. Built on technology created for the market-leading Salesforce.com CRM system, Force.com can help solve virtually any enterprise challenge, with worldclass value, scalability, and reliability. However, to succeed, developers need more practical technical guidance than Salesforce.com's documentation provides. This book gives them what they're searching for. Drawing on his experience building many leading Force.com applications, Jason Ouellette helps developers identify suitable applications, and covers every aspect of prototyping, deploying, and marketing production-quality software. Ouellette's fully updated coverage reflects the three major releases of Force.com since this book's first edition. Ouellette writes from a developer's point of view, and provides extensive code samples. He covers Apex coding, Visualforce UI development, security, database design, queries, triggers, web services, workflow, single-sign-on, Salesforce-to-Salesforce capabilities, and much more. This edition adds chapters on batch processing (Batch Apex), and social applications (Chatter). New topics range from Force.com's powerful Free Edition to XML parsing and Adobe® Flash® Builder for Force.com. Throughout, Ouellette emphasizes maintainability, flexibility, and seamless integration with existing code and infrastructure.
