Tom Mollerus' Weblog

Today I'm in San Francisco at the Dreamforce conference, which is Salesforce's annual conference. I'm starting with an all-day session called Visualforce for Developers, where I hope to learn more about how to write native Apex code that will run right in the Salesforce application. So far, I've only been able to call iframes which call ColdFusion pages to give people access to custom features. (This via URL-based "s-controls", which are a Salesforce-approved way to call external code.) The CF code, while running on its own server, does interact with Salesforce via Tom de Manincor's wonderful salesForceCFC.

I'll be very interested to see, as I learn native Salesforce APIs such as Apex code or Visualforce, just how I choose to interact with our ColdFusion system. I'm particularly interested in learning how to write more of the display code directly in Salesforce while having the web service calls go from Salesforce to our own systems-- the exact opposite of what we have now. As I learn more in the next few days, I'll be posting what I learn.