Apex Developer Guide

Getting Started
Writing Apex
Ways to Invoke Apex
Invoking Apex
Apex Transactions and Governor Limits
Using Salesforce Features with Apex
Actions
Approval Processing
Authentication
Chatter Answers and Ideas
Chatter in Apex
Moderate Chatter Private Messages with Triggers
Moderate Feed Items with Triggers
Communities
Email
Platform Cache
Salesforce Knowledge
Salesforce Connect
Salesforce Reports and Dashboards API via Apex
Force.com Sites
Support Classes
Territory Management 2.0
Visual Workflow
Integration and Apex Utilities
Finishing Touches
Reference
Appendices
Glossary
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Using Salesforce Features with Apex

Several Salesforce application features in the user interface are exposed in Apex enabling programmatic access to those features in the Force.com platform.

For example, using Chatter in Apex enables you to post a message to a Chatter feed. Using the approval methods, you can submit approval process requests and approve these requests.