The Salesforce Metadata API is a powerful tool that allows developers to programmatically access, retrieve, deploy, create, update, and delete metadata within a Salesforce organization. It's primarily used for managing and automating complex configuration changes, deploying customizations between environments (e.g., development, staging, production), and integrating Salesforce with other systems. Common use cases include automating the deployment of custom objects, fields, layouts, Apex code, and other declarative configurations. It is also used for retrieving metadata to understand an organization's structure or for source control purposes.
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