Force.com Apex Code Developer's Guide

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Deploying Apex to a Sandbox Organization

Salesforce gives you the ability to create multiple copies of your organization in separate environments for a variety of purposes, such as testing and training, without compromising the data and applications in your Salesforce production organization. These copies are called sandboxes and are nearly identical to your Salesforce production organization. Sandboxes are completely isolated from your Salesforce production organization, so operations you perform in your sandboxes do not affect your Salesforce production organization, and vice versa.

To deploy Apex from a local project in the Force.com IDE to a Salesforce organization, use the Force.com Component Deployment Wizard. For more information about the Force.com IDE, see http://wiki.developerforce.com/index.php/Force.com_IDE.

You can also use the deploy() Metadata API call to deploy your Apex from a developer organization to a sandbox organization.

A useful API call is runTests(). In a development or sandbox organization, you can run the unit tests for a specific class, a list of classes, or a namespace.

Salesforce includes a Force.com Migration Tool that allows you to issue these commands in a console window, or your can implement your own deployment code.

The Force.com IDE and the Force.com Migration Tool are free resources provided by salesforce.com to support its users and partners, but aren't considered part of our services for purposes of the salesforce.com Master Subscription Agreement.

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For more information, see Using the Force.com Migration Tool and Deploying Apex.