What is the difference between ant migration tool and apex integration services in Salesforce?

ANT is used as a building tool.

* Through this we can deploy all the changes we are making in one environment to another environment.
* We have to create the package.xml
* Had to make use of the command prompt for the retrieving and deploying from one to another environment.
* Advantage here is, once you create a package.xml, we can deploy it to any destination environment.
* We can make the backup of the complete package from both destination and source environment.

Apex integration development Services.

* It can be used for the downloading of the code and in creating/modifying the code components and then saving them to the server.
* It is used for comparing the components.
* It maintains the Local History, which is used for comparing or replacing it with an older copy.
* We can deploy to any other Salesforce org. But here we have to manually select the components. Also, it will be a little tough to deploy all config related changes using Eclipse.
* Option 'Deploy to Server' is available.

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