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Salesforce Integration for Beginners: Demystified & Simplified

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Product Description:

Learn the basics of custom Salesforce integration with external platforms


Who This Book Is For:

This book is for Salesforce developers who want to quickly familiarize themselves with the know how of custom Salesforce integration based on simple step by step visual tutorials.

Main Highlights of the Book:

• Salesforce integration has been explained right from scratch in order to make the reader understand the dynamics of the integration process at minute levels

• Each integration module has been presented in the form of a step-by-step tutorial which can be reproduced if executed carefully by the reader

• Running codes have been provided in the book with comments inserted against different sections of the code for better understanding

• All the codes and screenshots used for implementation of integration modules in each chapter are available on GITHUB.

• A generalized flow for Salesforce outbound integration has been introduced

• Only those terms and terminologies have been covered in the book which are essential for understanding and execution of the modules, thus curtailing the theoretical details to an absolute minimum

• The modules used for demonstrating integration are based on most popular platforms like Facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube, Gmail, Google Drive etc.

• There are total 17 integration modules in this book covering different varieties viz. inbound, outbound, Salesforce to Salesforce, Salesforce REST API and SOAP API based integration flows to name a few

• A user community group has been created for the readers of the book to enhance interaction among the developers

What will you learn:

• About the significance of OAuth2.0 as the authorization protocol for performing integration of Salesforce with external platforms

• To effectively use the API documentation of various external platforms used for implementation of integration modules as per the use case requirements

• To generate access tokens and configuring other HTTP requests using Postman App

• JSON and XML response parsing using Apex demonstrated with very simple examples

• A generalized flow for implementing Salesforce outbound integration

• Outbound integration of Salesforce using simple REST callouts

• Outbound integration of Salesforce using JavaScript client libraries

• Inbound integration using Salesforce REST, SOAP, Bulk and Chatter APIs

• Implementation of Salesforce to Salesforce integration

About the authors:

Lalit Kumar: Lalit Kumar is a Salesforce enthusiast who has worked in various verticals of Salesforce and other web technologies. He has 5 years of industry experience and he is a Salesforce Certified Platform-I Developer.

Kunwar Singh: Dr. Kunwar Singh is a technology enthusiast who loves to explore and learn new technologies and strongly believes in multidisciplinary research and development. He possesses a Ph.D degree from University of Delhi and has published more than 20 research papers in various national/international journals and conferences. He is currently serving as Assistant Professor in the Faculty of ICT, Department of Electronics & Communication Engineering, Netaji Subhas University of Technology since 2013. He had earlier served the Department of Electrical Engineering, Delhi Technological University as Assistant Professor from 2010-2013.

490 pages, Kindle Edition

Published April 6, 2019

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