Visualforce

We'll be able to use point-and-click tools to satisfy nearly all of our Recruiting app use cases; however, there are a few use cases, such as the mapping of candidate locations and the posting of positions on Universal Containers' public jobs site, that will require us to use Visualforce, the Force.com platform's tag-based markup language that allows you to build sophisticated, custom user interfaces for apps. We won't address these use cases until the very last chapter, and when we do, this book will provide all the code you need.

Although we haven't yet gone into detail about how any of this stuff is going to work, you can probably see now just how flexible and powerful the Force.com platform can be when you're creating a custom app.

In the next chapter, we'll start out by building our first custom object. We'll swiftly get a feel for how the platform interface works, and it won't be any time at all before you're building app components easily and quickly. When it's this easy, you can't help but become an expert!