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Force.com IDE

Last updated May 14, 2025, generated by Sumble

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What is Force.com IDE?

The Force.com IDE was a plugin for Eclipse that allowed developers to create, modify, and deploy Force.com applications. It provided features like code completion, debugging, and deployment tools specifically tailored for developing on the Salesforce platform. It's now deprecated in favor of Salesforce Extensions for VS Code.

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What other technologies are related to Force.com IDE?

Force.com IDE Competitor Technologies

Change sets are a native Salesforce tool for deploying metadata between orgs, providing an alternative to the Force.com IDE.

mentioned alongside Force.com IDE in 43% (267) of relevant job posts

Illuminated Cloud

Illuminated Cloud is an alternative IDE for Salesforce development, competing with the Force.com IDE.

mentioned alongside Force.com IDE in 55% (64) of relevant job posts

Workbench is a web-based suite of tools designed for administrators and developers to interact with Salesforce.com organizations via the Force.com APIs. It is a competitor to Force.com IDE for some tasks.

mentioned alongside Force.com IDE in 3% (130) of relevant job posts

Force.com IDE Complementary Technologies

Scheduled and Batch classes

Apex scheduled and batch classes are used for asynchronous processing, which can be deployed using the Force.com IDE.

mentioned alongside Force.com IDE in 62% (195) of relevant job posts

Force.com Migration Tool

The Force.com Migration Tool (Ant) can be used in conjunction with the Force.com IDE to automate deployment tasks.

mentioned alongside Force.com IDE in 48% (87) of relevant job posts

Lightning Components Development

Lightning components are a development framework used with the Force.com IDE for building user interfaces.

mentioned alongside Force.com IDE in 60% (53) of relevant job posts

Which job functions mention Force.com IDE?

Job function

Jobs mentioning Force.com IDE

Orgs mentioning Force.com IDE

Information Technology

0% (991) job posts

1 organizations

Salesforce Administrator

1% (981) job posts

294 organizations

Software Engineer

0% (124) job posts

43 organizations

Cloud Engineer

0% (18) job posts

9 organizations

Salesforce Developer

1% (1) job posts

1 organizations

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Which organizations are mentioning Force.com IDE?

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Professional Services

Professional Services

Health Care and Social Assistance

Scientific and Technical Services

Retail Trade

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