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Introducing Generic Streaming

Generic streaming uses Streaming API to send notifications of general events that are not tied to Salesforce data changes.

Use generic streaming when you want to send and receive notifications based on custom events that you specify. You can use generic streaming for any situation where you need to send custom notifications, such as:

Broadcasting notifications to specific teams or to your entire organization
Sending notifications for events that are external to Salesforce

To use generic streaming, you need:

A StreamingChannel that defines the channel
One or more clients subscribed to the channel
The Streaming Channel Push REST API resource that lets you monitor and invoke push events on the channel