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Hello Trailblazers,  In this blog we are going to focus on OAuth 2.0 JWT Bearer Flow for Server-to-Server Integration. JWT Bearer Flow is used for server to server communication and to avoid logging in each time.  JWT Bearer Token is something that you provide to some other service to let that service authenticate you. This flow uses a certificate to sign the JWT request and doesn’t require explicit user interaction. However, this flow does require prior approval of the client app. Which means you need to allow access first for the connected app by using some third-party authorization app. So, we can consider JWT as a key which gives us access to various things. Pre-requisites for JWT(JSON Web Token) Bearer Flow X509 certificate Connected App X509 certificate  Since we will be signing JWT using RSA SHA256, we need certificate as a secret for signing data. You can download certificate from Salesforce or you can use openssl for ge...

  Hello Trailblazers, In this blog I have explained use of EMP API which is used to subscribe for events. You can create Lightning Component which uses this EMP API for subscribing to various streaming channels such as Platform Events, Change Data Capture Events, Generic Events. We can use this implementation for testing Platform Events or Change Data Capture events in local environment. Lightning/empApi module has below methods which are used for implementing events subscription.  Method Name    Parameter Name  Description  subscribe    Subscribes to the streaming channel, this gives subscription object which we use to unsubscribe later.    onMessageCallback  Callback function which is invoked whenever an event is received    repla...

Hello Trailblazers,   Today we will discuss about another no/low code feature of Salesforce – External Services. Whenever delivering an application if you can provide 360-degree view of products or services on a single platform then it becomes important factor which can affect customer satisfaction in positive way. And integrations help us in achieving the same by allowing us to connect to various services to get data or process data. In traditional approach we were using apex classes to implement REST integration with the help of endpoints and other necessary details. But Salesforce has now come up with External Services with the help of which you can connect your Salesforce Org to any RESTful service with the help of API Specification. So now onwards whenever you have to call any external web service just perform below steps and you will be able to connect your org without any code – Get API Specification File* from web service provider Create Named Credentials Register your...