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Some days ago I imported a WSDL into Salesforce and (different of some years ago) it created an Async class (and of course the sync class). So I decided to search on Google how to use this Async class. I've found some articles about that and I implemented this solution for test... For my surprise, the Async class can't be called inside a trigger. Now I'm asking myself and now asking you all: What's difference between of using this Async class and use @future method (and use Sync class)?

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The Async class is intended to be used in a continuation. See Make Long-Running Callouts from a Visualforce Page

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Basically, a continuation will provide a callback mechanism so that when the async callout is complete you can bring the result back to the client.

A @future method won't provide that callback mechanism. It's more fire and forget.

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  • But on trigger context (that you can't wait for an awnser), are @future method and Async class equals?
    – Átila Castro Alves
    Commented May 1, 2016 at 23:45
  • You can only* use the async Continuation classes from a Visualforce context. They don't work anywhere else. Plus a trigger isn't going to wait around for the callback to occur before it can finish. Triggers need to be as fast as possible.
    – Daniel Ballinger
    Commented May 1, 2016 at 23:52

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