Force.com APIs allow you to easily integrate back-office applications with Force.com while leveraging existing platform choices for systems like ERP, Financials and other custom applications. This webinar, the first in a series covering all Salesforce APIs, focuses on the SOAP and REST APIs, and will present asynchronous integration options, showing how they can be used to access data in Force.com and connect other applications to Force.com. Future webinars will focus on the APIs specific to Service Cloud, Collaboration, Metadata and the Tooling API.
Watch this webinar to learn how to make basic API calls using Java, and implement inbound and outbound calls to and from Force.com.
Key Takeaways
Learn about the various API options available to you when integrating Force.com with other applications.
See how the basic SOAP and REST APIs work in an application.
Implement a commonly used pattern to integrate information from Force.com to an external system.
Intended Audience
Force.com developers or Integration developers and architects with a working understanding of Web Services.
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The What and Why – Strategy
A careful plan or method for achieving a particular goal usually
over a long period of time
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The What and Why - Three Steps to Success
Define Process
• Data
• Tasks
• Timing
Identify the
Layers
• User Interface
• Application Logic
• Data Model
Choose the
Approach
• Build vs. Buy
• Integration
Methodology
• Resources
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The Building Blocks
§ Supports Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocol SSLv3
§ Username/Password Credential Authentication
§ Support for Oauth
§ OAuth – Open Standard for Authorization. Determines what a logged in user can do based on
who they are
§ Support for custom token authorization mechanisms
§ Delegated Authentication
§ Mix n Match…hybrid models
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The Force.com SOAP API
§ SOAP – A way to exchange structured data using web
services
§ WSDL – Language used to describe the Web Service
Interface
§ The Force.com SOAP API securely exposes data to other
systems
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WSDL Flavors
§ Enterprise WSDL
• Specific to your
Salesforce.com org
• Strongly typed
• Contains objects specific to
your salesforce.com org
§ Partner WSDL
• Generic, can be used
against any org
• Meta-data driven and
dynamic
• Programmer must use
introspection
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WSDL Wisdom
§ With the Enterprise WSDL, if you change your objects, you
must pull the WSDL down again and re-consume the WSDL
§ Import limitations of some WSDL2xxx tools
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SOAP in Action
§ Login() to Salesforce.com
§ Other operations that we will see
– Query()
– Create()
– Update()
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The Force.com REST API
§ REST – An architectural style used to expose API using Web
Services
§ JSON – A text based data interchange format (contrast with
SOAP that uses XML)
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The Force.com REST API
§ Standards-Based Security
§ Same Data Model as the Soap-based Web Services API
§ Supports JSON/XML
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REST in Action
§ Get a session id from Salesforce.com
§ Other operations that we will see
– /vNN.N/search/?q=SOSL search string
– Create a record
– Updating a record