Install the Ant Migration Tool
Follow these steps to download and install the Ant Migration Tool.
If you don’t have Ant installed, see Prerequisites for Using the Ant Migration Tool.
- Download the .zip file of the Winter ’24 Ant Migration Tool. The download link doesn’t require authentication to Salesforce. If you’re logged in to Salesforce, we recommend that you log out before accessing the link in your browser.
- Save the .zip file locally, and extract the contents to the directory of your choice.
When you extract the Ant Migration Tool .zip files, these folders and files are written to the location that you specified.
- A Readme.html file that explains how to use the tools
- A Jar file containing the ant task: ant-salesforce.jar
- A sample folder containing:
- A codepkg\classes folder that contains SampleDeployClass.cls and SampleFailingTestClass.cls
- A codepkg\triggers folder that contains SampleAccountTrigger.trigger
- A mypkg\objects folder that contains the custom objects used in the examples
- A removecodepkg folder that contains XML files for removing the examples from your organization
- A sample build.properties file that you must edit, specifying your credentials, in order to run the sample ant tasks in build.xml
- A sample build.xml file that exercises the deploy and retrieve API calls