The use of Software as a Service (SaaS) applications has skyrocketed in the business world over the past few years. With their benefits of being more cost-effective, scalable and easier to use, SaaS products offer an attractive option for companies looking to optimize efficiency and operational performance. However, integrating these products with one another, as […]
How Business Automation is shaping Digital Transformation
Business automation is usually a function of how fast a company is growing or maturing. Customers are moving from old desktop/server apps with limited connectivity into more modern apps with APIs enabled. Now it’s more a “must have” rather than “nice to have.” APIs are built for improving automation and user experience, and it’s already […]
OData and REST APIs: A comparison
An explanation of what is REST, how it is applied to the construction of RESTful APIs; what is OData and how it is used to build web services, and the differences between the two.
Salesforce Replication – Now There is an API for it!
It’s here now …. It’s been sometime that our customers have been asking us for an API to operate our DBSync Cloud Replication for Salesforce. While we had a Java and a SOAP based call, it was missing a ReST interface. Beginning of this year we worked on a platform for building and exposing API’s […]
How to download attachments outside Salesforce
Many times we were asked from various social media platform including Linkedin, Twitter, Pinterest but not limited to tech forums like Salesforce Stack Exchange, Stack Overflow for a Salesforce app to download attachments. I remember one question from a user where he posted asking: “Is there a possibility of getting associated attachments of opportunities, quotes […]
Speed up connectors’ turnaround with Swagger Specification
What is Swagger Swagger is the world’s most popular and largest framework of API’s developer tools for the open API specification, enabling development across the entire API lifecycle, from design and documentation to test and deployment. How Swagger Specifications Have Revolutionized API Ecosystem In the developer community, with the growing popularity of RESTFUL web services […]
Best Practices For API Testing
What is API Testing ? API Testing is entirely different from GUI testing and mainly concentrates on the business logic layer of the software architecture. This testing won’t concentrate on the look and feel of the application . API Testing requires an application to interact with API. In order to test an API, you will […]
How to Incorporate a SOAP Service in ApiCode
“ApiCode” is a framework which allows developers to plugin custom JAVA code. It can effectively integrate with any external system by implementing the necessary “ApiCode” interface exposed for integration with DBSync platform. Link for ApiCode ‘helloworld‘ example. Since ApiCode is a simple java application, implementing SOAP services in ApiCode is not any different. It is as same […]
SOAP vs ReST API: A Comparative Analysis
Generally, in technology, we face the dilemma of choosing between two or more services. It is a similar situation when we want to access web services. If we have to make a choice between SOAP and ReST APIs, we certainly get torn between the two options. On the face of things, it is an investment, […]
