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Janardhan Salesforce Integration & Web-services ( Rest & Soap ) , Where to start ???
Dear Salesforce Specialists,
You guys are doing awesome Job in providing the best knowledge for almost all the questions posted on forums,
I do have a request :
I am very new to the Webservices & Integration
1) How to learn Web services - Integration & Where to start ( Step - By Step Resources : Documentation , PDF's , VIdeo;s , Usefull Blogs ? )
2) Salesforce Rest & Soap - Where to start ( Step - By Step Resources : Documentation , PDF's , VIdeo;s , Usefull Blogs ? )
3) Any Real-time impmemention's ( With : Oracle, SAP, SQL,JAVA) for references ?
4) Does big Clients use Third-Party tools for automating Integration ( Ex: Jitterbit , Boomi , Informatica ) , If so which one is best tool to use ?
One of our client project is about to start and I am involved in that and I am in real confusion from where to start learning and reach the stage of implementing?
I hope some of you guys helps me ,
Thanks,
Janardhan
You guys are doing awesome Job in providing the best knowledge for almost all the questions posted on forums,
I do have a request :
I am very new to the Webservices & Integration
1) How to learn Web services - Integration & Where to start ( Step - By Step Resources : Documentation , PDF's , VIdeo;s , Usefull Blogs ? )
2) Salesforce Rest & Soap - Where to start ( Step - By Step Resources : Documentation , PDF's , VIdeo;s , Usefull Blogs ? )
3) Any Real-time impmemention's ( With : Oracle, SAP, SQL,JAVA) for references ?
4) Does big Clients use Third-Party tools for automating Integration ( Ex: Jitterbit , Boomi , Informatica ) , If so which one is best tool to use ?
One of our client project is about to start and I am involved in that and I am in real confusion from where to start learning and reach the stage of implementing?
I hope some of you guys helps me ,
Thanks,
Janardhan
https://developer.salesforce.com/page/Apex_Web_Services_and_Callouts
If you are talking about calling FROM another system and into Salesforce, then I'd look over these:
http://blog.deadlypenguin.com/blog/2012/04/13/salesforce-and-soapui-using-the-default-query-method/
http://blog.deadlypenguin.com/blog/2012/02/03/salesforce-and-soapui/
https://developer.salesforce.com/page/Creating_REST_APIs_using_Apex_REST
https://www.salesforce.com/us/developer/docs/api_rest/
Unfortunately in my experience there's not "good way" to learn web services since every endpoint is different and how you interact / authenticate with them differs. I would look at the documentation for the specific endpoint you are dealing with and learn from that.
Fortunately going into Salesforce is not too terrible. If you don't mind doing any business logic outside of the system then accessing the REST/SOAP endpoints directly is pretty straightforward. But if you want to keep your business logic seperate, I would suggest using WebService or @RestResource and access those.
For realtime implentation you can use the StreamingAPI but there are some pretty severe limitations [1] to it that may hit you pretty hard if you have a lot of data flowing around. You would probably be better off doing a semi-realtime polling option, or setting up a messaging system and having Salesforce send outbound messages to it.
As for Third-Party tools, there is no "Best." I would look for whatever tool best meets your needs and not try to find one that solves all of your issue.
[1] http://www.salesforce.com/developer/docs/api_streaming/Content/limits.htm
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5) What is purpose of Workbench in integration ?
https://developer.salesforce.com/page/Apex_Web_Services_and_Callouts
If you are talking about calling FROM another system and into Salesforce, then I'd look over these:
http://blog.deadlypenguin.com/blog/2012/04/13/salesforce-and-soapui-using-the-default-query-method/
http://blog.deadlypenguin.com/blog/2012/02/03/salesforce-and-soapui/
https://developer.salesforce.com/page/Creating_REST_APIs_using_Apex_REST
https://www.salesforce.com/us/developer/docs/api_rest/
Unfortunately in my experience there's not "good way" to learn web services since every endpoint is different and how you interact / authenticate with them differs. I would look at the documentation for the specific endpoint you are dealing with and learn from that.
Fortunately going into Salesforce is not too terrible. If you don't mind doing any business logic outside of the system then accessing the REST/SOAP endpoints directly is pretty straightforward. But if you want to keep your business logic seperate, I would suggest using WebService or @RestResource and access those.
For realtime implentation you can use the StreamingAPI but there are some pretty severe limitations [1] to it that may hit you pretty hard if you have a lot of data flowing around. You would probably be better off doing a semi-realtime polling option, or setting up a messaging system and having Salesforce send outbound messages to it.
As for Third-Party tools, there is no "Best." I would look for whatever tool best meets your needs and not try to find one that solves all of your issue.
[1] http://www.salesforce.com/developer/docs/api_streaming/Content/limits.htm
I hope you are fine,
You are awesome, First of all thanks for your quick answer which really gave me goosebumps ( I didnt expected such a quick answer from community )
The content looks so informative & I am starting it today , I will definietely come back to you If i am strucked in learning process ,
You deserve MVP & I hope that Salesforce people will look into your hard-work and time in helping community and as a community member I am requesting them to nominate you for the consecutive years aswell which really gives you push(encouragment) and directly it will help my fellow community members ,
Keep rocking ,
Many Thanks,
Janardhan
1. Step-By-Step Guide to Get Started with Salesforce SOAP API using Java (http://www.asagarwal.com/2398/step-by-step-guide-to-get-started-with-salesforce-soap-api-using-java)
2. Step-By-Step Guide to Get Started with Salesforce REST API using Java (http://www.asagarwal.com/2401/step-by-step-guide-to-get-started-with-salesforce-rest-api-using-java)
This provides you a step-by-step guide on how to connect to Salesforce from a java program and execute some basic transactions in Salesforce like query, insert, update & delete.
Hope you're doing fine with integration. I would like to know how many days it took to take grip on INTEGRATION . I am also satrting to learn, please help me and any suggestions would be appriciated.
Thanks,
Venkatesh
Rest api to create a record,
https://www.sfdc-lightning.com/2019/01/salesforce-rest-api-integration-to-create-a-record.html
Here Soap integration is performed by taking example of two salesforce system.
https://www.sfdc-lightning.com/2018/10/salesforce-soap-integration.html