How to use Apex in AJAX Salesforce

First of all, you have to expose an apex class as soap service.

–> The class should be defined as global.
–> webservice keyword and static defination modifier should be added. Note: The webservice keyword gives global access to the method it is added.

Refer to the code below for understanding it better:

global with sharing class myClass { 
    webservice static Id makeContact(String lastName, String a) {
        Contact c = new Contact(LastName = lastName, AccountId = a);
        insert c;
        return c.id; 
    }
}

Now the code for Visualforce Page:

<apex:page >    
    <script src="/soap/ajax/42.0/connection.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
    <script src="/soap/ajax/42.0/apex.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
    
    <!--Container-->
    <div id="contactId">
        
    </div>
    <script type="text/javascript">
    	//Establish the connection
        sforce.connection.sessionId = '{!$Api.Session_ID}';
    
    	//Create account through AJAX
        var account = new sforce.SObject("Account");
        account.Name = 'Test Account';        
        account = sforce.connection.create([account]);
        var result =  unescape(JSON.stringify(account));
        var accountId = result.substring(result.indexOf("id:'")+9,result.indexOf("id:'")+27);       
        console.log(JSON.stringify('accountId: '+accountId));
    	
    	//Call the method through AJAX
        var id = sforce.apex.execute("myClass","makeContact",{lastName:"Smith",a:accountId});    	
        console.log(JSON.stringify('id: '+id));
    	document.getElementById('contactId').innerHTML = 'Contact Id: '+id;
    </script>
</apex:page>

Here is the output:

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