When the API documentation (especially Bulk and Rest) refer to sObjects, could some one please cofirm that they mean ALL the stardard objects:

http://www.salesforce.com/us/developer/docs/officetoolkit/Content/sforce_api_objects_list.htm

and not JUST the "Sales Objects" here:

http://www.salesforce.com/us/developer/docs/api/Content/sforce_api_erd_majors.htm

IN other words, you can use the ROW API call for ALL objects including something like Attachments?

Thank you!
Ryan

Side note: I feel our industry needs to settle down about abreviations.   Ambiguity no es bueno!

I understand that The streaming API is considered a push technology as updates can be set up using Apex so that when sales objects change, events can fire and a native app is in synch.  Is that correct?

But are there any means to create such push triggers outside of force.com?

Thank you!

Ryan

Is this use of Apex only permitted on “native” applications that are hosted on force.com?  Or is Apex also available for external applications to hit the “Open APIs” such as REST API and Bulk API?

I am very excited about these two articles talking about creating “REST APIs” on top of force.com to “expose data” to . . external applications.

http://www.wadewegner.com/2013/03/creating-anonymous-rest-apis-with-salesforce-com/
http://blog.jeffdouglas.com/2013/07/02/build-a-public-api-on-force-com/

However, I had understood that you cant take data “off” of force.com.  Did I misunderstand?  If I did, then are these APIs a way to utilize data on your own external application by building an application for the native environment?

Please feel free to chastise all any misuse of any salesforce terms.  There are just so many ways to build on SalesForce, it’s very confusing!

THANK YOU!

RCP

I understand that the Sales Force open API allows for more than one update per call.  As in you can update many different TYPEs of objects and possibly even hitting more than one tenant/customer at a time.  How is this done?

As a potential ISV, we just need to know the high level strategy of how to avoid the governor limits and any advice in this area is appreciated.

And please forgive me for being so vague, but I am a SF novice and I don't want to prevent an answer by posing excessive restrictions.  All we know is that we want to stay very much in synch with our customer’s SF instances but not hit the governor limits while using the Open API (non-native).

Thank you!
Ryan

I am trying to determine if the Heroku connect would only work for one customer at a time or if I can use oauth2.0 or possibly even hard coded passwords to manage many different sets of customer data in one postgres implimentation.   

Any help in this area is greatly appreciated!

Thank you 
RCP

I am very excited about these two articles talking about creating “REST APIs” on top of force.com to “expose data” to . . external applications.

http://www.wadewegner.com/2013/03/creating-anonymous-rest-apis-with-salesforce-com/
http://blog.jeffdouglas.com/2013/07/02/build-a-public-api-on-force-com/

However, I had understood that you cant take data “off” of force.com.  Did I misunderstand?  If I did, then are these APIs a way to utilize data on your own external application by building an application for the native environment?

Please feel free to chastise all any misuse of any salesforce terms.  There are just so many ways to build on SalesForce, it’s very confusing!

THANK YOU!

RCP

I am trying to determine if the Heroku connect would only work for one customer at a time or if I can use oauth2.0 or possibly even hard coded passwords to manage many different sets of customer data in one postgres implimentation.   

Any help in this area is greatly appreciated!

Thank you 
RCP