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Andrew Fawcett
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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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Application integration APIs

This section describes ways in which you can expose your application's business logic functionality that's encapsulated within your Service layer.

In some cases, Developer X is able to achieve such functionality through the standard Salesforce APIs. However, depending on the requirement, it might be easier and safer to call an API that exposes existing business logic within the application. You can decide to do this for the same reason you would create a custom UI rather than expect the end users to solely utilize the standard UI (because using your objects directly requires them to understand the application's object schema in more detail).

Providing Apex application APIs

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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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