Become an Apex Integration Specialist in 2 hours

In the series of my favourite trailhead module blogpost this time, I’m going to cover about one of the most expected and important developer focused trailhead module “Apex Integration Service”. This time salesforce launched with new a Trail and 6 badges which brings over all 13 trails and 70 shiny badges in the Trailhead.

Most of the salesforce projects will have an integration with the other application in the project life cycle. As a salesforce developer, we must have a sound knowledge in Integrations and salesforce provides this free “Apex Integration service” trailhead module which has 4 units with the followings topics

Apex Integration Overview  
This overview module makes you understand the difference between the Webservice and HTTP callouts and use of external site in Webservice topic salesforce

Apex REST callouts 
This module covers the both consuming and sending data through REST callouts. You will learn about the Deserialize and serialize  JSON strings in apex class with the example. More importantly, you will also learn about the Test callouts by using mock callouts with the example test class code.

Apex SOAP callouts
In the real-time application integration, most of the legacy enterprise application will have the SOAP services for the tight integration. This unit has an example to generate WSDL to apex class to send data to the external application

Apex Webservice
If you are developer & like to build a custom web service in salesforce then this the right module to understand the possibility and flexibility in salesforce. This module will cover both REST and SOAP. Apart from this modules, there is also new trailhead modules and badges are out there. Here is the list below

1. Admin Advanced trail: http://sforce.co/1OyLO7m
2. Advanced Formulas: http://sforce.co/1Pb6h6O
3. LEX Chatter Basics: http://sforce.co/1max3Rc
4. LEX Data Management: http://sforce.co/1OyLFRk
5. Application Lifecycle Management (rewritten): http://sforce.co/1UF76ox
6. Build a Battle Station App: http://sforce.co/1TSlvNh

Important note: Don’t forget to participate in the Trailhead badge challenge and win existing astronomical prizes, to know more details check this developer site blog post here