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Clean Apex Code: Software Design for Salesforce Developers
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Clean Apex Code: Software Design for Salesforce Developers

by Pablo Gonzalez
May 2025
Intermediate to advanced
411 pages
6h 36m
English
Apress
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© The Author(s), under exclusive license to APress Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2025
P. GonzalezClean Apex Codehttps://doi.org/10.1007/979-8-8688-1411-2_8

8. Object-Oriented Programming in Apex

Pablo Gonzalez1  
(1)
Dublin, Ireland
 

I made up the term “object-oriented”, and I can tell you I didn’t have C++ in mind.

—Alan Kay

The subject of object-oriented programming (OOP from now on) has caused endless debates in the software community. Alan Kay, who coined the term, has often said that what we think of OOP today is not at all what he intended. This is to say that it is a complex topic, and it would be impossible for me to explain everything about this design paradigm in a single chapter. However, for better or worse, Apex is an OOP language, ...

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