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BBurkleBBurkle 

General approach for Java Script Web App on Force.com Site?

What is the general approach for having a force.com site host a JavaScript web app which communicates with the Salesforce via REST API?  Would I zip up the JavaScript, HTML and CSS files, upload them as a resource, then point to the main HTML file from a visual force page which is in the site?  What documentation would be good to read for this situation?

 

Thanks!

 

 

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new2forcenew2force

http://wiki.developerforce.com/index.php/Delivering_Static_Resources_with_Visualforce

 

hope this may help u

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sfdcfoxsfdcfox

Static Resources require authentication (as far as I've observed). Instead, consider inlining the resources, hosting them on Content or the Documents tab, or on an external server.
new2forcenew2force

http://wiki.developerforce.com/index.php/Delivering_Static_Resources_with_Visualforce

 

hope this may help u

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sfdcfoxsfdcfox

Thanks for that information. I obviously missed it, so it's nice to know that it does work.
BBurkleBBurkle

Thank you for the information.  I found this doc a few days ago and it did answer my questions.  

 

The Javascript toolkit makes this kind of development possible, but there are a couple things which would make development a little easier.

1.  Direct communication with the REST API would allow the use of outside tools which understand a REST api.

2.  I want to write as little Visualforce code as possible.  This solution seems to assume that a Visualforce page is the starting point.  

I was hoping that if I hosted my app on force.com and was accessing force.com data, that development would go smoother.