Platform Events Developer Guide

Platform Events Developer Guide
Delivering Custom Notifications with Platform Events
Defining Your Custom Platform Event
Publishing Platform Events
Subscribing to Platform Events
Testing Your Platform Event in Apex
Encrypting Platform Event Messages at Rest in the Event Bus
Monitor Platform Event Publishing and Delivery Usage
Considerations
Examples
End-to-End Example Using Flows
Java Client Example
Prerequisites
Define a Custom Platform Event
Download and Build the Project
Subscribe to a Channel and Receive Event Notifications
Platform Event Samples
Reference
PDF

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Prerequisites

Some tools and a Developer Edition org are required to run the sample.
  • Java Development Kit 8 or later (see Java Downloads)
  • Eclipse IDE for Java Developers (get a recent version from http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/eclipse-packages/). This example walks you through the steps of building the project with the Eclipse IDE but you can you use your preferred IDE to build the Java client.
  • To run the tool from the command line: Apache Maven (see https://maven.apache.org/index.html)
  • Access to a Developer Edition org

    To create a Developer Edition org, go to developer.salesforce.com/signup and follow the instructions for signing up for a Developer Edition organization.

  • API Enabled user permission. This permission is enabled by default in a Developer Edition org.
  • Streaming API enabled in Setup, in the User Interface page. This permission is enabled by default in a Developer Edition org.