Apex Developer Guide

Apex Developer Guide
Release Notes
Getting Started with Apex
Introducing Apex
Apex Development Process
What is the Apex Development Process?
Create a Developer or Sandbox Org
Learning Apex
Writing Apex Using Development Environments
Writing Tests
Deploying Apex to a Sandbox Organization
Deploying Apex to a Salesforce Production Organization
Adding Apex Code to a AppExchange App
Apex Quick Start
Writing Apex
Running Apex
Debugging, Testing, and Deploying Apex
Apex Reference
Appendices
Glossary
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What is the Apex Development Process?

To develop Apex, get a Developer Edition account, write and test your code, then deploy your code.
We recommend the following process for developing Apex:
  1. Obtain a Developer Edition account.
  2. Learn more about Apex.
  3. Write your Apex.
  4. While writing Apex, you should also be writing tests.
  5. Optionally deploy your Apex to a sandbox organization and do final unit tests.
  6. Deploy your Apex to your Salesforce production organization.

In addition to deploying your Apex, once it is written and tested, you can also add your classes and triggers to a AppExchange App package.