What is the difference between Salesforce.com's External Objects and the SOAPBox?
What is the difference between Salesforce.com's External Objects and the SOAPBox? We have been getting a lot of questions regarding the difference between the SOAPBox connector and Salesforce.com' s new realtime data access dubbed 'External Objects' and thought a quick post would clarify the difference between the two technologies. The main difference between the two is that Salesforce.com's current release of this technology relies on a connection protocal called Odata. Odat
Embedding real-time data into the Salesforce Account Object
Here is a great example of using the SOAPBox with the Salesforce.com add-in. Click on the listing below and select take a test drive and continue as a guest. If you query a customer and pull up the Account detail. Note a section (visual force component) as part of the Account Object called 'Unity Integration Information'. That data is actually coming from a MS SQL Server in real time. We simply created a list controller in APEX that called the SOAPbox libraries and mapped the
