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#Ant for salesforce deployment install#
#Ant for salesforce deployment update#

Setup and configuration – Let’s get the ball rolling and configure everything. A remote repository – here are some options you can sign up for a free account at Github or Bitbucket.

#Ant for salesforce deployment install#

Check out this earlier post on how to install and setup on a Mac.Have Apache Ant installed on your machine – download here.

#Ant for salesforce deployment update#

After installing you may need to update the path on your machine to point to the Java bin directory.

Have Java JDK installed on your machine – download and install.

Any command line tool (for this tutorial I’m using the Terminal on Mac).

Access to a developer edition or sandbox org.

Prequisites – things you need to get started The prequisites, setup and the build/deploy.

Adding changes to the a local version control.

Making changes to an org and retrieving the metadata.

Some use cases for this are, developers can work on different sandboxes and merge changes without overwriting each ones work, have a backup of the orgs metadata, do versioning for all the development changes and rollback changes if needed or incorporate continuous integration for automated testing and deployment.Īfter this tutorial you should be familiar with the following concepts: That said though, on traditional software development using version control this is a best practice. Why should you learn this? This is not for all, if you are small company with only one or two developers you can get away with using change sets. This tutorial shows you some techniques on using the Ant Migration toolkit for deployment and Git for version control on your Salesforce Development.