SalesForce Integration

Sharing few thoughts that crossed my mind while integrating SalesForce web services API, overall I loved the ease & clear documentations as to SFObjects & their detailed usecases, building SOAP binding API with java was quick with Axis wsdl2java, also saleforce developer account setup helped to test the api calls without impacting the live site, though only hitch was that for developer account only 2 accounts (whic is understandable) are allowed to be ACTIVE though the API allows CRUD on non ACTIVE SFObjects,
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SaaS Integration

Lately have been agressively doing SaaS application integration for my client. Have come across vendors allowing integration using xml & various flavour of soap integration, best of the breeds so far I have seen is the Salesforce integration API, we were up & running with all integration business needs within days & not weeks, still for some reasons there are vendors who offer web services in a custom pattern like WebEx which more or less is a xml over http/https , no object binding adds an extra step to marshal/de-remarshal objects using either a custom or standard/open source xml data/document convertor like Apache xmlbeans which does a greater automation converting objects defined in xsd to java bean patterns making it a breez when it comes to parsing xml http request & response from xml server.....

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Metadata based application design

Have been instrumental in designing & developing metadata based enterprise applications. Now that SaaS & PaaS services are being offered by major vendors we are moving away from traditional product development models.Given the cost advantage along with the application infrastructure maintenance benefits I feel cloud computing is here to stay, so enterprise on demand is a reality.From CRM, Email, to hosted data services like Amazon s3 building a product offering seems like a click away, which I think will boost greater innovation & bring more competitive vendors in the market giving cost advantage to clients. So 3 cheers to metadata & multi tenant platforms, I feel the multi tenant should extend to multi technology so that 1 is not bound by the platform limitations, though the integration seems open ended via web services & xml the end user should have a choice to deploy the app using PaaS while choosing the technology he wants. that way he has the option to keep his product development both in sync on & off PaaS/SaaS frameworks.
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