Everything we have built throughout this book is considered metadata—the BIM DB application containing the movie, person, cast, review, and production company objects and their fields are; the records we created, like The Godfather, are considered data! You already saw how you we can export and import data in Chapter 2, Understanding Data Modeling and Management, in the Importing and exporting data into development environments section. Now, we are going to explore the different ways to move (deploy) our metadata (all our customizations) from one org to another.
To deploy metadata between Salesforce orgs, you can use change sets, the Force.com IDE, any other IDE (with Salesforce plugins), or the Force.com migration tool (ANT).
Before we start, I want you to know that this will be a more theoretical chapter. As we are developing on a developer...
