Salesforce Features
Eclipse Toolkit for Force.com
A Full-Featured, Integrated Development Environment for Force.com
Developer Preview
- Develop Apex code in a collaborative development environment
- Migrate setup configuration data between Salesforce instances
Force.com leads the market in platform as a service. With the Eclipse toolkit for Force.com, developers can make use of the popular Eclipse IDE (integrated development environment) to build and deploy Force.com applications. Take advantage of this powerful integrated offering to manage collaborative development, multiple deployment environments, and source control.
Training and Documentation
Feature Details
- Apex Code: Use the full power of Eclipse’s code-editing tools to create, edit, and test your Apex code. These capabilities include syntax and error highlighting and test suite execution.
- Source Control Support: The Eclipse toolkit allows you to use the native source control capabilities available in Eclipse when editing, tracking, and deploying your changes to Salesforce, allowing multi-developer teams to collaborate on Apex code-based projects more effectively.
- Apex Code Deployment: Use a wizard-based process to migrate your Apex code between Force.com Sandbox, Developer Edition, and production environments.
- Initial Metadata API Support: This release of the Eclipse toolkit provides initial support for creating, editing, and managing text-based metadata enabled by the metadata API enhancements described in that section of the admin preview.
Note: The Eclipse toolkit for Force.com is available as a developer preview with Salesforce Winter ’08 and will not be generally available with this release.
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