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
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Overloading Web Service Methods

SOAP and WSDL do not provide good support for overloading methods. Consequently, Apex does not allow two methods marked with the webservice keyword to have the same name. Web service methods that have the same name in the same class generate a compile-time error.