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
Webservice Methods
Exposing Data with Webservice Methods
Considerations for Using the webservice Keyword
Overloading Web Service Methods
Exposing Apex Classes as REST Web Services
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

Note: This release is in preview. Features described here don’t become generally available until the latest general availability date that Salesforce announces for this release. Before then, and where features are noted as beta, pilot, or developer preview, we can’t guarantee general availability within any particular time frame or at all. Make your purchase decisions only on the basis of generally available products and features.

Exposing Apex Methods as SOAP Web Services

You can expose your Apex methods as SOAP web services so that external applications can access your code and your application.

To expose your Apex methods, use Webservice Methods.

  • Apex SOAP web services allow an external application to invoke Apex methods through SOAP Web services. Apex callouts enable Apex to invoke external web or HTTP services.
  • Apex REST API exposes your Apex classes and methods as REST web services. See Exposing Apex Classes as REST Web Services.

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