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Exploring @future annotated methods

The @future annotation (pronounced as at future) is, perhaps, the simplest method of asynchronous code execution on the Salesforce1 platform. The @future, is a method annotation that makes the method run asynchronously at some point in the near future. Generally, this happens quite quickly, but no time guarantees are established annotation methods as @future is fantastically useful, but has a number of caveats and limitations that developers must remain mindful of:

• Most importantly, methods annotated with @future can only accept primitive parameter types. String, Integer, and so on, are your only options.
• You cannot chain methods annotated with @future. In other words, an @future annotated method cannot be called ...