Regularly comparing and synchronizing your new development work helps to ensure that any incompatibilities are found much earlier on in your process. ANT helps with this by giving you a powerful way to keep 2 (or more) Salesforce Orgs synchronised throughout your development process. If each developer worked independently, you may not know whether their work will be compatible with the other. At some point, both of these developers will need to put this new functionality into your testing and live environments. Imagine that you have 2 different members of your team building some ‘cool new stuff’ in their respective development environments. Let’s start with the biggest advantage that ANT offers. You are working with a team who are already using ANT. If you are already using Eclipse this post talks about the difference between ANT, Maven, and Eclipse.ģ. You need a flexible way to deploy changes to multiple Salesforce environments at any one time (more on that below).Ģ.You want to start creating Salesforce configuration on your local computer using a text editor such as Sublime Text. ANT is a tool to help you move Metadata (information such as Objects/Reports/Apex Classes/Visualforce Pages) between different Salesforce environments. Once configured, ANT allows you to easily move configuration from one Salesforce environment to another with a series of simple text commands that you enter into a Terminal window on your computer.ĪNT commands are run in a terminal window on your computer Why do you need to know about ANT?ġ.
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