Lesson 1: Integration Requirements, Architecture, Authentication, and Connected Apps
Lesson Overview
This lesson develops practical skills in integration requirements, architecture, authentication, and connected apps for Salesforce Platform Integration in Lightning (DEX502).
Topics Covered
Integration use cases, system context, ownership, source of truth, latency, volume, and SLA
Point-to-point, middleware, hub, event-driven, batch, and virtualized integration patterns
Connected Apps, OAuth flows, JWT, web server, client credentials concepts, and scopes
Named Credentials, External Credentials, certificates, secrets, principals, and policies
Data contracts, versioning, idempotency, correlation, traceability, and error taxonomy
Architecture and security review
Practical Activity
Configure or analyze a scenario involving integration use cases, system context, ownership, source of truth, latency, volume, and sla.
Build and validate an exercise covering point-to-point, middleware, hub, event-driven, batch, and virtualized integration patterns and connected apps, oauth flows, jwt, web server, client credentials concepts, and scopes.
Use tests, logs, reports, or documentation to verify architecture and security review.
Key Takeaways
Explain integration use cases, system context, ownership, source of truth, latency, volume, and sla in the context of Salesforce Platform Integration in Lightning (DEX502).
Apply practical methods for point-to-point, middleware, hub, event-driven, batch, and virtualized integration patterns and connected apps, oauth flows, jwt, web server, client credentials concepts, and scopes.
Test, document, and troubleshoot architecture and security review.
