about paysafe
Salesforce has a lot of tools to help move changes from one place to another, like Change Sets, the ANT Migration Tool, Salesforce DX, Workbench, and some third-party tools. The ANT Migration Tool is a special tool that works with Java to help move metadata (like settings and customizations) from one Salesforce account to another. In this post, we’ll learn how to use the ANT Migration Tool to move changes in Salesforce.
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What Is ANT Migration Tool?
The ANT Migration Tool is a program you use by typing commands to move things around in Salesforce. It helps you get, put, or remove pieces like Apex Classes, Visualforce pages, and other components between different Salesforce accounts.
Advantages of using the ANT Migration Tool
ANT migration tool have lots of advantage over Changes set.
- Metadata Backup: Gets the metadata in form of XML files from your Salesforce org and downloads it locally on your computer.
- Delete Component: Change set does not allow you to delete any metadata component from target org. But using ANT migration tool you can delete the components from target org. This can be done using destructiveChanges.xml file.
- Component Support: Some components are not supported to be migrated using change sets but you can migrate them using ANT migration tool.
- Command line Support: It can also be run from command prompt using some specific commands for calling APIs.
Difference between ANT Migration Tool and Change Set
Let’s understand the difference between the change set and the Ant migration tool.
| ANT Migration Tool | Change Set | |
| User Interface | This support a command line interface. Use Ant scripts and Build.xml to specify what elements are to be retrieved/deployed. | This is UI based deployment tool. Which is available in your Salesforce org. Use Setup > Deploy > Outbound / Inbound ChangeSets. |
| Delete Component | With the ANT migration tool, you can delete the components from the target org. | Change set does not allow you to delete any metadata component from target org. |
| Automation | It support Automate deployments by executing scripts in tools like Jenkins and etc tool. | It supports only manually deployed between Sandbox and other Sandbox or production. |
| Dependencies | All dependencies should be manually added | Dependency can be easily added (in single click) |
| Continuous deployment | Suitable for Large teams with Continuous deployment. | Suitable for medium-sized teams using connected orgs |
| Different Org | We can deploy components in unrelated Salesforce org | With Change set we can only deploy component in related org and sandbox only. |
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