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Learning Force.com Application Development
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Learning Force.com Application Development

by Chamil Madusanka
April 2015
Beginner content levelBeginner
406 pages
8h 50m
English
Packt Publishing
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Working with Apex

Before you start coding with Apex, you need to learn a few basic things.

Apex basics

Apex has come up with a syntactical framework. Similar to Java, Apex is strongly typed and is an object-based language. If you have some experience with Java, it will be easy to understand Apex. The following table explains the similarities and differences between Apex and Java.

Similarities

Differences

Both languages have classes, inheritance, polymorphism, and other common object oriented programming features

Apex runs in a multitenant environment and is very controlled in its invocations and governor limits

Both languages have extremely similar syntax and notations

Apex is case sensitive

Both languages are compiled, strongly-typed, and ...

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ISBN: 9781782172796Supplemental Content