sforce 3.0 Workshop Custom Control with sforce Explorer Extension
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What It Does
![]() sforce Explorer The sforce Explorer is a Workshop Extension that provides ready access to the salesforce.com meta-data for your salesforce.com account. Just select View/Windows/sforce Explorer from the Workshop built in menus to display a convenient hierarchical view of the objects accessible to you as well as detailed meta-data about each object. The meta-data includes object and field permissions, data types, field lengths, labels and names, picklist values and valuable relationship information. sforce 3.0 Workshop Custom Control With sforce 3.0 Workshop Custom Control, application developers can easily incorporate salesforce.com functionality when building web applications, web services, portal or integration solutions on the BEA WebLogic Enterprise Platform 8.1. Salesforce.com is offering the release of the sforce 3.0 Workshop Custom Control to allow customers and developers the ability to build new applications that access sforce, the new client/service application development system from salesforce.com. The sforce 3.0 Workshop Custom Control uses service-oriented components, introduced with BEA WebLogic Workshop 8.1, that make it easier to connect to and use any IT system or asset as a reusable service. Controls simplify development by abstracting the details of J2EE, encapsulating best-practice implementations of systems, logic, and ISV applications to serve as building blocks for the service-oriented assembly and integration of applications and business processes. The sforce 3.0 Workshop Custom Control will enable salesforce.com customers to easily connect to and extend salesforce.com functionality through sforce web services. Using industry-standard web services protocols, developers will be able to extend salesforce.com functionality and integrate salesforce.com with other applications. For additional information on the release of the sforce 3.0 Workshop Custom Control, please contact either Dave Carroll or Mike Kreaden or visit the sforce website. Installing the sforce 3.0 Workshop Control
You can now see all of the objects that are available in salesforce.com. Expanding the tree nodes will reveal additional information about each of the objects. You can right-click anywhere on the tree to logout of the API or to find a link to the sforce Community forums. You username and login information is securely saved as a property of the of the Workshop IDE. To modify the sforce Explorer properties, select the Tools/IDE Properties menu item. The IDE properties dialog will be displayed. Select sforce Explorer to modify your username, password or the web services endpoint. The endpoint can be used to run your application against a server using an different version of the services than the WSDL version of the control. Please visit sforce.com for more information. Installing sforce Workshop Portal Sample
![]() This version of the sforce Workshop Control supports WebLogic Workshop 8.1 sp2.
To run the examples:
For more information:
How It WorksClick the following link for the SalesForce 3.0 WSDL exposed methods: sforce.com API For method exposed in the SalesForce Workshop Custom control click the following link: sforceWrapper API |