Development Plan
The Services Manager sample application is developed incrementally throughout this book, each chapter building on the previous. Every chapter covers a set of technical concepts followed by the relevant Services Manager requirements, design, and implementation. The goal is to expose you to the abstract technology and then make it practical by getting your hands dirty on the sample application.
The following list names the remaining chapters in this book, with brief descriptions of the features of Services Manager to be covered:
Chapter 2, “Database Essentials”—Design and create the database and import data.
Chapter 3, “Database Security”—Define users, roles, and profiles. Configure sharing rules.
Chapter 4, “Business Logic”—Build triggers to validate data and unit test them.
Chapter 5, “Advanced Business Logic”—Write services to generate email notifications based on user activity.
Chapter 6, “User Interfaces”—Construct a custom user interface for tracking the skills of consultants.
Chapter 7, “Advanced User Interfaces”—Enhance the skills-tracking user interface with Ajax.
Chapter 8, “Mobile User Interfaces”—Create a mobile user interface for entering timecards.
Chapter 9, “Batch Processing”—Locate missing timecards using a batch process.
Chapter 10, “Integration with Force.com”—Calculate and transmit corporate performance metrics to a fictional industry-benchmarking organization.
Chapter 11, “Advanced Integration”—Develop a Java program to update Force.com with information from a human resources database.
Chapter 12, “Social Applications”—Automate built-in platform collaboration features to help project teams communicate.