Introducing Apex
Apex is the world's first on-demand programming language that allows you to implement complex business requirements and transactions on the Force.com platform. There are two types of application development in Salesforce and they are as follows:
- Declarative development
- Programmatic development
Apex falls under programmatic development. It is a strongly typed object-based language. It remains well connected with your data, schema, and data manipulation using the query and search language. Apex is included in Developer Edition, Lightning Enterprise Edition, Lightning Unlimited Edition and Database.com. You can write Apex classes or triggers in a developer or sandbox organization. As soon as you finish the development of Apex code, you have to write test methods to cover the implemented Apex code. Once you have greater than 75 percent code coverage, you can deploy the particular Apex code to the production organization. The Apex programming language has the following...
