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  • Avnish Yadav

    Member
    July 20, 2018 at 6:56 AM

    Hello Chanchal,

    Comparing Change Sets, Eclipse Deployment and Ant:-

    1. Eclipse and Ant will not keep a track of the Classes and Pages which were deployed earlier. On the Other hand, if we use Change Sets then all old deployment will be tracked.
    2. A change set can only be moved between a live site and its sandbox. Eclipse and Ant can be used to move between any orgs like live site and developer org.
    3.  Change Sets allow the ability to be cloned whereas Eclipse doesn't .

    Thanks.

     

  • Parul

    Member
    September 15, 2018 at 8:03 AM

    Changesets are a way to deploy components through the standard salesforce UI. A user first creates a Outbound Changeset on the Source org and adds the components they wish to deploy. Once ready, the changes is uploaded to a Destination ORG. The deployment can then be validated and deployed from within the Destination ORG>

    Ant and Eclipse both use security tokens, but only outside the trusted network. This is usually a non-issue for people that work in offices, because they have static IP ranges they can list to nullify this requirement.

    Eclipse can't push code without coverage to production environments. You can never, ever break this cardinal rule, no matter how you deploy. Sandboxes and developer editions do not require testing or coverage, however.

    Eclipse IDE:
    Mainly used to deploy between one org to another org.
    It provides a comfortable environment for programmers familiar with integrated development environments, allowing you to the code, compile, test, and package and deploy all from within the IDE itself
    Metadata files are the text-based, they also can be compared using text diff tools, managed in a version control system such as CVS or Subversion, and even deployed from one Salesforce organization to another
    Project Synchronization working Online or Offline project.
    A version control system allows you to track changes to a set of files over the time.

     

    Thanks

  • shariq

    Member
    September 16, 2018 at 10:30 AM

    Hi,

    Difference Between Change Sets and Eclipse Deployment Methods

     

    1. Via eclipse we can deploy but Eclipse will not keep a track of the Classes and Pages which were deployed earlier . On the Other hand if we use Change Sets then all old deployments will be tracked .

     

    2. Change Sets allow the ability to be cloned where as Eclipse doesn't .

     

    3. A silly difference is Eclipse Uses Security Token as it is an 3rd Party System .

     

    4. A change set can only be moved between a live site and its sandbox. Eclipse can be used to move between any orgs like live site and developer org.

     

    5. When using change sets when it deploys it runs all tests of apex code. If you have low coverage or have code that will break with the new components you will not be able to deploy it will fail every time while with Eclipse you can push code without coverage.

    Hope this helps.

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