Up to this point, you have learned to develop the Force.com application using the declarative methods (point and click developments). We have used many declarative methods such as creating the object's structure, relationships, workflow rules, and approval process to develop the Force.com application. The declarative development method doesn't require any coding skill and specific Integrated Development Environment (IDE).

This chapter will show you how to extend the declarative capabilities using custom coding of the Force.com platform. Apex controllers and Apex triggers will be explained with examples of the sample application. The Force.com platform query language and data manipulation language will be described with syntaxes and examples. At the end of the chapter, there will be a section to describe bulk data handling methods in Apex.

This chapter covers the following topics: