Salesforce Features
Apex Code
Customize and Develop Anything on Demand
Unlimited Edition
• Build and customize apps using salesforce.com’s Java-like programming language
• Create powerful business logic that executes on our servers
• Publish any method as a standard Web service
Training and Documentation
Feature Details
With the release of Summer ’07, Apex Code becomes generally available for customers of Unlimited Edition. Apex Code, the world’s first on-demand programming language, takes on-demand customization much further, allowing developers to customize business logic to create an entirely new class of features and apps. Apex Code—together with salesforce.com’s renowned multitenant architecture and the Apex Web Services API—gives organizations all the tools they need to completely model their unique business processes with all the speed, power, and flexibility of on demand.
Note: For more information on Apex Code, visit the Apex Code page on the Apex Developer Network site.
6 Comments
July 9
Nice to see this coming, but I hope when we get to release it won't be restricted to the "Unlimited Edition" (a daft name for a product with limitations) as we won't be doubling our committment to SF just to get it. This is a key technology to work around the myriad limitations in SF and should be available in most if not all edditions. If it is only made available in "unlimited" then it will simply cause frustration for us - Enterprise is expensive enough!
July 12
I agree with what was said above.
Although I suppose this is a good way to increase the number of Unlimited Edition users.
July 12
You're kidding me. No Enterprise Edition??
July 16
Do you mean you've been teasing us with Apex for over a year, giving us developer account access and encouraging us to invest time learning Apex and readying Apex solutions for the day when Apex is released, and now you're not going to release it to anyone except Enterprise Edition customers!? You might have told all your less-affluent customers about this a year ago, so we wouldn't have wasted our time on Apex!
July 19
Perhaps it is GA for Unlimited Edition first and will trickle down to the rest of us. I don't mind users of the Unlimited Edition working out the bugs in Apex Code.
If it will only be available to Unlimited Edition users, I won't be adding anyone outside sales to Salesforce.
July 23
We appreciate the feedback – and we do pay attention to the comments here. For the Summer '07 release, it made sense for us to make Apex Code available to UE customers who can take advantage of sandbox development environments and premier support. We will continue to take feedback here and in other venues.