Force.com Tooling API

Introducing Tooling API
When to Use Tooling API
REST Overview
SOAP Calls
Tooling API Objects and Namespaces
Tooling API Objects
SOAP Headers for Tooling API
REST Headers for Tooling API
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Introducing Tooling API

Use Tooling API to build custom development tools or apps for Force.com applications. Tooling API’s SOQL capabilities for many metadata types allow you to retrieve smaller pieces of metadata. Smaller retrieves improve performance, which makes Tooling API a better fit for developing interactive applications.Tooling API provides SOAP and REST interfaces.
For example, you can:
  • Add features and functionality to your existing Force.com tools.
  • Build dynamic modules for Force.com development into your enterprise integration tools.
  • Build specialized development tools for a specific application or service.

Tooling API exposes metadata used in developer tooling that you can access through REST or SOAP.

For detailed descriptions of Tooling API objects and the REST resources and SOAP calls that each object supports, see Tooling API Objects.