Deploy using Force.com Migration Tool
Force.com Migration Tool is Java ANT based command line tool to deploy metadata components from one Salesforce org to another org or deploy same metadata components to multiple Salesforce org's like Developer org -> UAT org -> Pre-Production org -> Production org. It allows you to deploy metadata components likes Objects, Communities, Apex classes, Apex triggers, Lightning Components and Visualforce Pages, and so on. The advantage of using Force.com Migration Tool is, it allows you to schedule a deployment over the weekend or non-business hours. This use Metadata API to deploy the components. It is very useful and time-saving to use Force.com Migration Tool in following scenarios
- Migrate components from development org to a test org with large amounts of metadata quickly.
- In the case of multistage release processes using this tool deployment of components can make this activity much more efficient.
- When IT does deploy from staging org to...