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Salesforce provides Platform as a Service (Paas) named Force.com. Using Force.com platform we can build our own solution to meet the business requirements. Force.com is a platform for creating applications in the cloud with absolutely no software or hardware investment required.

We can create apps and websites through the cloud IDE (integrated development environment) and deploy them quickly to Force.Com multi-tenant servers.

  • Salesforce follows the MVC (Model, View, and Controller) architecture
  • Using the Force.com Platform we can build our solution in Salesforce. Force.com platform provides the below components for a customization
  • Apex – Apex is an object oriented programming language. Used to build our business rules/logics.
  • VisualForce – It is a markup language, used to develop a user interface that can be accessed public users by hosting the page in the Force.com sites. It contains some set of Form controls that can be used to create Forms/Page
  • SOQL, SOSL – Both are the query language which is used to do a CRUD operation with Salesforce Objects
    • SOQL – SOQL indicates Standard Object Query Language and it is a SQL query language to fetch data from the Salesforce Custom/Standard Objects
    • SOSL – SOSL indicates Salesforce Object Search Language. SOSL is a search language in salesforce and the important feature is that Unlike SOQL, we can search in multiple objects at same time using SOSL

PaaS Features

Approval Process

Custom Object

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