Deployment using the Ant Migration Tool

The Ant Migration Tool provides a way to deploy metadata from the local directory to a Salesforce sandbox. We can use the Ant command-line utility to automate deployment tasks in Salesforce.

The Ant Migration Tool helps us to retrieve and deploy metadata to and from a sandbox.

This tool can also be used to take backups of your sandbox metadata. To configure access to the sandbox, we need to provide sandbox credentials in the build.properties file. The build.xml file contains commands for retrieving or deploying metadata. Package.xml contains the components to be retrieved or deployed. 

The Ant Migration Tool is explained in detail via an example in Chapter 4, Introduction to the Force.com Migration Tool. 

We will discuss some scenarios where the Ant Migration Tool deployment type can be used:

• Deployment can...