Summary
In this chapter, you have learned deployment methodologies available in the Force.com platform. We introduced sandboxes, change sets, packaging, and explained a simple deployment with the Force.com IDE. Finally, we explained high level steps for distributing the Force.com application onto the AppExchange.
The next chapter is an Appendix, Force.com Tools, and it will give you an overall idea about some tools, which are available on the Force.com platform and are related to the Force.com development/deployment environment.