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Force.com Migration Tool is Java ANT based command line tool to deploy metadata components from one Salesforce org to another org or deploy same metadata components to multiple Salesforce org's like Developer org -> UAT org -> Pre-Production org -> Production org. It allows you to deploy metadata components likes Objects, Communities, Apex classes, Apex triggers, Lightning Components and Visualforce Pages, and so on. The advantage of using Force.com Migration Tool is, it allows you to schedule a deployment over the weekend or non-business hours. This use Metadata API to deploy the components. It is very useful and time-saving to use Force.com Migration Tool in following scenarios
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