Apex Developer Guide

Apex Developer Guide
Release Notes
Getting Started with Apex
Writing Apex
Running Apex
Invoking Apex
Anonymous Blocks
Triggers
Asynchronous Apex
Exposing Apex Methods as SOAP Web Services
Exposing Apex Classes as REST Web Services
Introduction to Apex REST
Apex REST Annotations
Apex REST Methods
Exposing Data with Apex REST Web Service Methods
Apex REST Code Samples
Apex Email Service
Using the InboundEmail Object
Visualforce Classes
JavaScript Remoting
Apex in AJAX
Apex Transactions and Governor Limits
Using Salesforce Features with Apex
Integration and Apex Utilities
Debugging, Testing, and Deploying Apex
Apex Reference
Appendices
PDF

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Exposing Apex Classes as REST Web Services

You can expose your Apex classes and methods so that external applications can access your code and your application through the REST architecture.

This is an overview of how to expose your Apex classes as REST web services. You'll learn about the class and method annotations and see code samples that show you how to implement this functionality.

Apex SOAP web services allow an external application to invoke Apex methods through SOAP web services. See Exposing Apex Methods as SOAP Web Services.

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