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Published inMar 2017
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Andrew Fawcett
Andrew Fawcett
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Andrew Fawcett

Andrew Fawcett has over 30 years of experience holding several software development-related roles with a focus around enterprise-level product architecture. He is experienced in managing all aspects of the software development life cycle across various technology platforms, frameworks, industry design patterns, and methodologies. He is currently a VP, Product Management, and a Salesforce Certified Platform Developer II at Salesforce. He is responsible for several key platform features and emergent products for Salesforce. He is an avid blogger, open source contributor and project owner, and an experienced speaker. He loves watching movies, Formula 1 motor racing, and building Lego!
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In this chapter, you've seen a new way to factor business logic beyond encapsulating it in the Service layer—one that aligns the logic—implementing the validation changes, and interpretation of an object's data through a Domain class named accordingly. As with the Service layer, this approach makes such code easy to find for new and experienced developers working on the code base.

A Domain class combines the traditional Apex Trigger logic and custom Domain logic—such as the calculation of championship points for a contestant or the verification of compliance rules against the cars, drivers, and teams.

By utilizing Apex classes, the ability to start leveraging OOP practices emerges, using interfaces and factory methods to implement functional subsystems within the application to deliver not only implementation speed, consistency, and reuse, but also help support a common user experience. Domain classes can call between each other when required to encompass the behavior of related child...

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Andrew Fawcett

Andrew Fawcett has over 30 years of experience holding several software development-related roles with a focus around enterprise-level product architecture. He is experienced in managing all aspects of the software development life cycle across various technology platforms, frameworks, industry design patterns, and methodologies. He is currently a VP, Product Management, and a Salesforce Certified Platform Developer II at Salesforce. He is responsible for several key platform features and emergent products for Salesforce. He is an avid blogger, open source contributor and project owner, and an experienced speaker. He loves watching movies, Formula 1 motor racing, and building Lego!
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