Chapter 24. APEX Best Practices

Best practices are a set of rules, advice, tips, and tricks that are collectively formed by the development community and are based on previous knowledge and experience. Best practices are not only aimed at helping us to develop our applications faster and easier, but also help to ensure consistency, readability, and maintainability. As a result, a high standard of quality is achieved in our applications.

Best practices are not carved in stone and should be used as guidelines at your own discretion. They can be subjective and vary between organizations. They can be dependent on the general development environment (such as developing in a Windows versus Unix/Linux environment, single developer versus team of developers, and so on), and greatly influenced by the enterprise culture. However, by nature, best practices should fit the widest common denominator possible.

As a novice developer, they can help you to build high standard applications right from the start...