[SalesForce] Calling runApex or executeanonymous from SOAP

Is there a way to call sforce.interaction.runApex or executeanonymous from the SOAP enterprise API?

I have a manged package that has an APEX method on it that I need to run from Java. The SOAP proxy doesn't seem to have an equivalent of either of these functions.

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While the Enterprise WSDL doesn't expose it there are two other SOAP based APIs that will directly allow you to invoke executeanonymous from an external system.

The preferred and current method is via the Tooling API executeanonymous(string apexcode) method. There are both SOAP and REST based versions of this API.

The older version is in the Apex API executeanonymous().

Both the Tooling and the Apex SOAP API WSDLs are independent of the Enterprise WSDL and will need to be downloaded separately.

I've got an example of the raw SOAP request to execute anonymous in Adding Eval() support to Apex

The alternative, as Toby answered, is to create the web service direction in Apex and then export the WSDL from that class in the org with the managed package installed.

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[SalesForce] com.sforce.ws.SoapFaultException: No operation available for request {http://soap.sforce.com/2006/08/apex}executeAnonymous

Whenever I've called executeAnonymous it has been on either the Apex WSDL or the Tooling WSDL. As far as I know it isn't included in either the Enterprise or Partner WSDL.

When you call the Apex WSDL you need to change the ServerURL that of the Apex Service rather than the Enterprise Server.

It will be something like:

https://cs9.salesforce.com/services/Soap/s/28.0/00D9YourOrgId

The important part here is the /s/ rather than /c/ in the URL to indicate which web service you are calling.

A typical sequence will be:

Call the login method with a username and password (plus append the security token if required)
Get the ServerURL and SessionId from the LoginResult
Set the SessionId in the proxy class so it is sent with subsequent requests.
If you called login in the Enterprise service and then want to call the Apex service you will need to alter the ServerURL (replace /c with /s). The Apex proxy class endpoint needs to be set to this modified ServerURL.
Call executeAnonymous.

[SalesForce] Connection closed error when calling SOAP API from C#

There is a Concurrent API Request Limit. Can you track how many calls are being made simultaneously when the error occurs and how long they were running for? If it is this limit you are exceeding you could implement some form of queuing to throttle the requests.

Concurrent API Request Limits

The following table lists the limits for various types of organizations for concurrent requests (calls) with a duration of 20 seconds or longer.

Organization Type           Limit
Developer Edition           5
Trial organizations         5
Production organizations    25
Sandbox                     25

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[SalesForce] com.sforce.ws.SoapFaultException: No operation available for request {http://soap.sforce.com/2006/08/apex}executeAnonymous

[SalesForce] Connection closed error when calling SOAP API from C#

Concurrent API Request Limits

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