Deploy Applications to Production Faster
by Jesse Lorenz on September 3, 2008 at 06:11 PM
The Force.com IDE exposes the Metadata API, to provide administrators and developers with some very powerful deployment capabilities. Steve Andersen recently blogged about these capabilities and about how using the Force.com IDE made his deployment process more efficient. Once Steve started deploying via the Force.com IDE, his typical deployment process dropped from 8 hours per customer to about 2 hours. As a Force.com Technical Evangelist, I can confirm Steve’s findings. I too have found the Force.com IDE to be a powerful deployment tool and recently learned a new trick that has made it even more efficient: Deploy the smallest subset of configuration changes possible.
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Posted by Jon Mountjoy on September 5, 2008 03:33 AM:
Cool Jesse. I'm getting into the Metadata API myself. I think of it as a combination of an introspection service (is that the right way to look at it?) and a creation service (I can create the metadata, not only introspect).
Posted by Jesse Lorenz on September 7, 2008 09:08 PM:
Jon, the docs describe the Metadata API as "A development resource for retrieving and deploying setup information in your organization." So, your characterization seems accurate.
Developers will also likely want to explore the describe* calls in the Web Services API which are more appropriate for scenarios where the developer wants to manage data instead of the data model.