Monday, November 3, 2014

Dreamforce 2014 Presentation - Improved Apex support for SOAP based web services

At Dreamforce this year I gave a breakout presentation on the WSDL2Apex component of the FuseIT SFDC Explorer. The core idea is to increase support for calling SOAP based web services by generating the required Apex classes from the WSDL.

Breakout Session Blurb

Join us as we review the capabilities of the existing WSDL-to-Apex code generation feature, and explain how we built a tool to provide expanded features using the Tooling API. The resulting tool has greater support for more WSDL features, generates test cases and the associated mocks to maximize code coverage, and optionally includes HttpRequest versions of the callouts.


Using the Tooling API to Generate Apex SOAP Web Service Clients

Offsite Session Video on Vidyard.



The demo's went well. I was caught out a bit with the resolution. I went in expecting 1280x720 and it got bumped up to 1920x1080. Hopefully the core parts scaled well enough to be seen. Note to self, have a magnifier tool handy for future demo's.

It was difficult to see the audience in the breakout room with 3 spot lights pointed at the stage - the cellphone camera isn't really showing how blinding it was. I could hear people were out there, but couldn't really see them. Some of the breakout rooms had this set up and some didn't, I'm not sure why.

These were minor things really, and I'm glad I was given the opportunity to present at Dreamforce. I got some great questions and feedback from the session. We are getting more followup queries at work now a couple of weeks after Dreamforce. With so much going on during the conference it seems to take awhile for people to filter back to work and follow up on sessions. Also, with so much going on, it was tempting to skip the sessions that were being recorded and attend other activities, such as labs and meeting with other attendees.