Setting Up Your Salesforce Account

Salesforce provides a web service to their repositories and offers a free 90–day developer account for evaluations. You need to get a Salesforce developer account and security key before you can run the Salesforce sample application.

This section explains the following tasks:

• To Obtain a Salesforce Developer Account

• To Obtain the SalesForce Account Security Key

To Obtain a Salesforce Developer Account

This procedure explains how to create your own developer account that enables you to use the Salesforce sample application with the Sun GlassFish Mobility Platform 1.1 gateway to access your data in the Salesforce repository.

Create a Salesforce Developer account:

1. Go to http://Salesforce.com/developer.

2. Register for a Developer account.

To Obtain the SalesForce Account Security Key

A Developer account security key must be used with the web service that enables the Sun GlassFish Mobility Platform software to interact with Salesforce database.

Get the Salesforce Developer account security key:

1. Log in to your Salesforce Developer account.

2. Select the Setup link at the top of the page.

3. Select the “Reset your security token” text on this page.

4. Follow the directions.

   A security key will be emailed to you.