Learning Objectives After completing this article, you’ll be able to: Describe SOAP web-services Implement basic SOAP web-services Expose APEX class as a SOAP web-services Security Considerations General Considerations Generate Apex classes using WSDL2Apex Perform a callout to send data to an external service using SOAP Test callouts Describing Outbound Messaging Preface Checkout the following related articles: Apex Integration Services Part 1 Apex Integration Services Part 2 Prologue SOAP API Salesforce integration and SOAP Apex Callouts will be the main subject of discussion today.

Learning Objectives After completing this article, you’ll be able to: Understand the different API’s available State the use cases for REST API State the use cases for SOAP API State the use cases for BULK API State the use cases for Streaming API Describe various API limits Prologue The Salesforce API landscape is a vast and encompassing ecosystem. That’s because Salesforce takes an API-first approach to building features on the Salesforce Platform.

Learning Objectives After completing this article, you’ll be able to: Describe APEX REST Implement APEX REST Security Considerations General Considerations Best Practices designing Rest Resources Prologue Ahoy, today’s topic will be on exposing your Apex classes and methods so that external applications can access your application. By making your methods callable through the web, your external applications can integrate with Salesforce to perform all sorts of nifty operations.

Prologue The Salesforce platform offers different sets of integration capabilities that enable you to tightly integrate your Apex code with an external service. This feat is possible through three features dubbed callouts: Apex Rest Callout Apex SOAP Callout Apex Web Service Note: Web service callouts to SOAP web services use XML, and typically require a WSDL document for code generation. HTTP callouts to services typically use REST with JSON.

Prologue This is the second post in the series Custom Metadata Settings on the Salesforce platform. Please checkout Salesforce Custom Metadata Settings Part 1 before continuing with this article, all the basics are discussed there in detail. The following topics will be discussed in this article with the related code: Custom Settings Methods (code) Custom Metadata Type SOQL queries Custom Metadata Packaging Custom Metadata Visibility Custom List Settings Methods Three main methods exist in getting Custom List Settings data namely: