Connect Your Clouds with Force.com

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1 Connect Your Clouds with Force.com Developer Track Jeff Douglas, Senior Technical Consultant, Appirio

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3 Jeff Douglas Senior Technical Consultant Appirio Developer Evangelist CloudSpokes Co-Author Salesforce Handbook

4 What to Walk Away With Solid understanding of Force.com integration options and patterns. Strategies for connecting various cloud platforms with Force.com. Best practices with Force.com integration options. A deep love and appreciation for the Force.com platform.

5 Agenda Cloud to Cloud Integration Patterns Inbound Outbound Hybrid Force.com Toolkits RMAforce Demo Microsoft Azure Google App Engine Amazon AWS Heroku Q&A

6 Integration Patterns with Force.com

7 Inbound Integration Options for Force.com Force.com APIs SOAP API, Bulk API, REST API, Chatter REST (Pilot) Apex Web Services SOAP, REST (Pilot) Apex Inbound Services Force.com Toolkits Google App Engine (Java & Python), Ruby, PHP, Perl,.NET and Azure

8 Outbound Integration Options for Force.com Apex Callouts Force.com Toolkits Outbound Message Apex Outbound Services

9 Apex Callouts Don t Forget! Governor Limits!! 10 callouts per transaction 3MB payload maximum 120 timeout for all callouts Dreaded You have uncommitted work pending error Callouts from Triggers must be made asychronously The joy of writing test coverage for callouts Invoke WSDL/SOAP or REST services. Be careful parsing returned JSON data. Parser is not yet native.

10 Force.com Toolkits for Services

11 Force.com Toolkits for Platforms/Languages

12 Demo Application RMAforce

13 Demo Application RMAforce

14 Demo Application RMAforce

15 Demo Application RMAforce

16 Demo Application RMAforce

17 Salesforce.com ERD

18 Demo - Microsoft Azure Inbound integration from SQL Azure Java app loads Sales Order data using the Bulk API

19 Recap - Microsoft Azure Inbound integration from SQL Azure using Java and the Bulk API Best Practices CVS column names should be same as target org Consolidate data into SQL Views for easy querying Schedule the app (.jar file) to run periodically on a server with notifications for failures. Monitor imports (success & failures) in Salesforce

20 Demo - Google App Engine Inbound integration using the Google App Engine Toolkit for Force.com (Java) to process customer RMAs.

21 Recap - Google App Engine Inbound integration using the Google App Engine Toolkit for Force.com (Java) Best Practices Use the GAE version of the Toolkit for App Engine. Use the precompiled Partner jar URL fetch service limited to 5 seconds so streamline queries and returned results Cache connection for improved performance

22 Demo - Amazon AWS Outbound integration to Amazon S3 using the Amazon Web Services toolkit. Customer service rep approves RMA, creates PDF and stores in Amazon S3.

23 Recap - Amazon AWS Outbound integration to Amazon S3 using the Amazon Web Services toolkit. Best Practices Setup different S3 buckets for sandbox and production Watch bucket permissions Guard your AWS API keys!

24 Demo - Heroku Platform/lauguage integration with Ruby and Heroku Customer checks the status of their RMA on mobile device. Ruby on Rails application using the REST API.

25 Recap - Heroku Inbound integration with Heroku. Ruby on Rails application using the REST API. Best Practices Use OmniAuth for authorization Use HTTPS for OAuth2 callback Use the Heroku SSL add-on for quick & easy encryption Treat access tokens like passwords!!

26 Recap What Did We See? Strategies for Force.com integration depending on use case. Force.com Toolkits for different services and language How do develop integrations regardless of platform and language. How to use different Force.com APIs depending on application purpose. Best practices for technologies, toolkits and platforms

27 Additional Resources Github code repo Cloud to Cloud Integrations with Force.com Loading Large Data Sets with the Force.com Bulk API Google App Engine Toolkit for Force.com Force.com Toolkit for Amazon Web Services OmniAuth

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