Chapter 20. Deploying APEX Applications

Being able to deploy applications between environments is an important aspect of application development. Often, we may need to deploy applications from a development environment to an acceptance test or production environment. We may also need to build applications that anyone can install and run in their own APEX environment. In this chapter, we will learn how to deploy our APEX applications to another APEX environment. Specifically, we shall be looking at:

• Supporting objects

• Exporting an application

• Importing an application

What do we need to deploy?

To deploy an application to another APEX environment, there are a number of items that need to be included in the deployment to ensure that the application will run. These items include the following:

• Application Source: This includes all the pages, templates, and shared components that make up our application

• Database Changes: This includes all database objects required for our application to work, such...