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Apex Developer Guide

Apex is a strongly typed, object-oriented programming language that allows developers to execute flow and transaction control statements on the Salesforce Platform server, in conjunction with calls to the API. This guide introduces you to the Apex development process and provides valuable information on learning, writing, deploying and testing Apex.

For reference information on Apex classes, interfaces, exceptions and so on, see Apex Reference Guide.