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Learning Apex Programming

Create business applications using Apex to extend and improve the usefulness of the Salesforce1 Platform

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|Sep 2025
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Key Features

    Book Description

    If you are a developer who has some object-oriented programming experience, Learning Apex Programming is the perfect book for you. This book is most appropriate for developers who wish to gain an understanding of the Force.com platform and how to use Apex to create business applications.

    What you will learn

    • Create an Eclipse workspace and a sandbox, and learn about IDE best practices
    • Write code within the limits of the platform and discover the best practices to stay out of trouble with queries
    • Understand transactional and batch processes
    • Discover classes and triggers and the best practices for using both
    • Design a Visualforce page using Apex and JavaScript
    • Customize sites to display Visualforce pages to the world
    • Integrate Google and Salesforce calendars

    Who this book is for

    If you are a developer who has some object-oriented programming experience, Learning Apex Programming is the perfect book for you. This book is most appropriate for developers who wish to gain an understanding of the Force.com platform and how to use Apex to create business applications.

    Table of Contents

    1. Apex: Assumptions and Comparisons
    2. Limits
    3. Batch vs. Transactional
    4. Triggers and Classes
    5. Visualforce Development with Apex
    6. Exposing Force.com to the World
    7. Use Case: Integrating with Google Calendar
    8. Create a property management application
    9. Test Coverage
    PDF ISBN: 978-1-78217-398-4
    Publisher: Packt Publishing Limited
    Copyright owner: © 2015 Packt Publishing Limited
    Publication date: 2025
    Language: English
    Pages: 302