Where is Apex used?

The following table lists the types of execution contexts that Apex code can be run from and considerations with respect to security and state management. While a description of how to implement each of these is outside the scope of this book, some aspects, such as Batch Apex, are discussed in more detail in a later chapter when considering data volumes:

Execution context

User

Security

State management

Anonymous Apex

Current user

 

Sharing is enforced by default, unless disabled by applying the without sharing keyword to the enclosing class.

CRUD and FLS are enforced by default, but only against the code entered directly into the Execute Anonymous window. The code will fail to compile if the user does ...

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