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Force.com Enterprise Architecture - First Edition - Source Code
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Question - build.xml in chapter 11 #4

Closed elukaweski closed 9 years ago

elukaweski commented 9 years ago

Hi....the build.xml in sample code for chapter 11 and the master has a target named "package.installdemo".

What is this used for? Thanks, Edwin

afawcett commented 9 years ago

Its a demo from an earlier chapter talking about automating things via metadata API and Ant. Helps if your wanting to automate installing dependent packages before deploying your code. Typically in a CI environment.

elukaweski commented 9 years ago

got it....interesting. Thanks for the reply

can you give me the specific reference in the book (e.g.page number) where it is used?

Thanks, Edwin

afawcett commented 9 years ago

I don't have the specific page number (as believe it or not i don't have my paper copy to hand), but looking through my drafts, i can see it was discussed in Chapter 1, under a sub-section entitled 'Automating package install'. Enjoy! :+1:

elukaweski commented 9 years ago

Page 27 :)