The Developer’s Guide to the Force.com Platform

Chapter 10. Apex

In this chapter ... Introducing Apex Working With Apex Apex Conditional Logic Apex Loops Future Apex Exception Handling Apex Classes Writing Apex code Summary

Up until this point in the book, your development efforts on the Force Platform have used the highly productive, mainly declarative features of the platform. From relationships, through workflow, through tag-driven Visualforce pages, you have not had to write any code in creating the current version of the Recruiting application.

The creators of the Force Platform believe in providing robust access to the capabilities of the platform in the most efficient manner, both for development and execution. As a best practice, you should always use the declarative features to implement ...