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    <p>I got two applications which are now both using the REST approach. I find the Salesforce documentation very useful.</p> <p><strong>Remote Access</strong></p> <p>Create the consumer key, secret and set the callback under Setup -> App Setup -> Develop -> Remote Access</p> <p><strong>Callback</strong></p> <p>The callback handling is part of OAuth protocol - find an explanation here: <a href="http://developer.xero.com/oauth-callback-domains-explained/" rel="nofollow">OAuth Callback Domains explained</a> It simply needs to return a valid page - it is a security feature validating the domain</p> <p><strong>More on OAuth Authorisation</strong></p> <p>See <a href="http://www.salesforce.com/us/developer/docs/api_rest/Content/quickstart_oauth.htm" rel="nofollow">OAuth Quickstart</a></p> <p><strong>Alternative: Session ID Authorization for SOAP</strong></p> <p>Explained at the bottom of the page <a href="http://blogs.developerforce.com/tech-pubs/2011/10/salesforce-apis-what-they-are-when-to-use-them.html" rel="nofollow">OAuth Quickstart</a></p> <p><strong>Using higher level libs</strong></p> <p>It is worth investigating if your chosen target environment has a higher level library available that covers some of the lower level aspects of communicating with the API. I am for example using a Ruby gem on top of the API - less work handling some of the API aspects.</p> <p><strong>Also useful</strong></p> <p><a href="http://blogs.developerforce.com/tech-pubs/2011/10/salesforce-apis-what-they-are-when-to-use-them.html" rel="nofollow">Salesforce APIs – What They Are &amp; When to Use Them</a></p> <p><strong>SOAP</strong></p> <p>I got an older application running on SOAP - does only require password and security token. No need to create a Remote Application if you are going to use that approach.</p> <p><strong>REST</strong></p> <p><a href="http://www.salesforce.com/us/developer/docs/api_rest/" rel="nofollow">Does require OAuth authentication</a> "Before making REST API calls, you must authenticate the user using OAuth 2.0" ... hence you need to create a Remote Application to generate consumer key and secret</p> <p>Enjoy your adventure with the Salesforce API - Eugen</p>
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    1. POCreating an application that interacts with salesforce?
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    1. COThanks @smile2day! I was more interested as in what are the recommended methods, for example, should I create an app in salesforce and then use the application key provided by that, instead of using a username/password to authenticate my service with salesforce?
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    2. COHi Jonathan, expanded the answer further. I believe the bottom line is that REST is only possible via OAuth which requires a Remote Application. There may may more to it but this is what I found so far. Eugen
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    3. COThanks! I tried creating a remote application and thought I could have the remote application interact with the SF API without using an actual account, unfortunately this is not possible. You need to create or use an existing account to access the APIs.
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