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Learning Apex Programming

Learning Apex Programming

By : Matthew Kaufman, Michael Wicherski
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Learning Apex Programming

Learning Apex Programming

2.8 (6)
By: Matthew Kaufman, Michael Wicherski
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Overview of this book

If you are a developer who has some object-oriented programming experience, Learning Apex Programming is the perfect book for you. This book is most appropriate for developers who wish to gain an understanding of the Force.com platform and how to use Apex to create business applications.
Table of Contents (11 chapters)
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Preface
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Preface
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What this book covers
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What you need for this book
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Who this book is for
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Conventions
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Reader feedback
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Customer support
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1. Apex Assumptions and Comparisons
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1. Apex Assumptions and Comparisons
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Before you start
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A gift to our readers
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Safety first
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The Force.com IDE
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Getting comfortable with Eclipse
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Linking Eclipse to the Salesforce1 Platform
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Under the hood
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Data and metadata
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Writing code
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Summary
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2. Apex Limits
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2. Apex Limits
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Exceptions prove the rule
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Embracing an exception
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An exception to end all exceptions
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Obeying the speed limit
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More limits
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Edition limits
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API limits
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E-mail limits
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Time and relative limits in space
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You want me to process how many records?
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How many times and how many things
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Techniques to avoid query limits
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These aren't the queries you're looking for
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Visualforce limits
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3. More and Later
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3. More and Later
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Chain reactions
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Where we're going, we don't need roads
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I fought the law and won
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Please sir, I want some more
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Combining forces
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Bigger, better, and batchier
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Dyna batch
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Building skynet
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Master control
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4. Triggers and Classes
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4. Triggers and Classes
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A brief history of triggers
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Trigger happy
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Pulling the trigger
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Inside the mind of a trigger
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Class is in session
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Staying classy
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Put your hands together
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Behind the scenes
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The Pablo Picasso of Apex
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5. Visualforce Development with Apex
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5. Visualforce Development with Apex
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s-con, what?
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Your own personal Force.com
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Tag, you're it!
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Taking control
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Extending control
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More internal goodies
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Static cling
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Dynamic pages
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Visualforce components
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Your component library
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Controlling components
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6. Exposing Force.com to the World
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6. Exposing Force.com to the World
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Three ways to skin a cat
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JavaScript buttons jubilee
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For your consideration
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My turn!
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7. Use Case – Integration with Google Calendar
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7. Use Case – Integration with Google Calendar
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Gimme an O!
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Googol
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Forget me not
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I'm late, very, very late!
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O, Auth me mighty Google!
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8. Creating a Property Management Application
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8. Creating a Property Management Application
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Why
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What
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Who
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How
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When and Where
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A custom model
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Paying your dues
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Mine, all mine
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Ain't no mountain
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Upgrade to the app status
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9. Test Coverage
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9. Test Coverage
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@isTest
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Always on my mind
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Get tested
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Fruits of our labour
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The ultimate goal
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Index
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Index

Before you start

Apex is a proprietary language that can only be compiled and executed by the Salesforce1 Platform. The Salesforce1 Platform is not open source and only runs on servers owned by the salesforce.com company. For these reasons, the purpose of Apex is to extend the Salesforce1 Platform beyond its native features. This might be the most important lesson in this book and can be summarized by two simple rules:

  • Leverage built-in features: Don't waste your time writing Apex code to do things that the Salesforce1 Platform can already natively do. Built in to the platform are robust features for authentication, reporting, workflow, and more. A good Apex developer is familiar with these features and works with them. Not only will this simplify your development process but also enable system administrators to manage items that frequently change. It will also ensure your projects are future compatible with the long list of feature enhancements salesforce.com delivers with each release.
  • Calculate your ROI upfront: the Salesforce1 Platform uses a per user subscription model. Before you start developing, determine the costs and benefits of the project. When enhancing an existing application, you should always look for some type of commonality between your existing application and your new one, either in data, users, or administration. A commonality of data might facilitate greater accuracy and better reporting. A commonality of users will reduce costs and improve adoption. A commonality in administration will also reduce costs and hopefully development time. If this is your first use of the Salesforce1 Platform or there are no overlaps, then evaluate the development time, which tends to be much lesser on the Salesforce1 Platform.

These might seem like trivial points, but in our experience working on over 500 projects on the Salesforce1 Platform, the long-term success of any project relies on them.

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