Developer Toolkits

Complete Freedom to Innovate

For building custom integrations, the Force.com platform supports all major development environments and tools, including Java EE, .NET, AJAX, Ruby on Rails, and PHP. This integration path gives you the most flexibility and choice for leveraging your developers’ skills and IDE experience to develop highly customized integrations.

Force.com Web Services Simplifies Custom Integrations

What makes the rapid development of custom solutions possible is the Force.com Web Services API, which uses the Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) to communicate with Web services by passing XML-encoded data over the Internet. Because almost all programming languages can create and consume SOAP messages, developers don’t need to know any details about coding in XML—It is handled by their development environments.

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You can access toolkits, sign up for free Developer Edition accounts, and network with other developers by joining developer.force.com at http://developer.force.com/.