Summary

This chapter has provided the basics of Force.com’s Streaming, Bulk, Canvas, Tooling, and Metadata APIs. Consider the following points for review as you move on to the next chapter:

The Streaming API allows you to get extremely granular and timely notifications about your data, at the level of changes to individual fields. On the other end of the spectrum, the Bulk API is optimized to move millions of records at a time in and out of the platform.

Canvas is a container technology for displaying your Web user interface within Force.com and providing integration of security context and other services that go well beyond what is possible with a raw IFRAME.

With the Metadata and Tooling APIs, you can build tools that automate development tasks, such as creating and modifying database objects and code. You can also use it to back up your entire organization’s configuration or replicate it to a new Force.com account.