Beginning Salesforce Developer

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Michael Wicherski, Beginning Salesforce Developer, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-3300-9_6

6. Apex Classes and Triggers

Michael Wicherski¹ 

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Time to put all that theory from Chapter 5 to good use. This chapter will focus on the creation of class (and trigger) files and understanding when they are needed.

Classes

Classes are the basic building blocks of your application logic. They are containers to be used for storing your Apex code which can be used to build custom object definitions, create methods (functions), define attributes, and so much more. Triggers are also a type of class, but are special and handled differently on the force.com platform, so they get their own section. For now, ...