Chapter 8. Build and Deploy
Your application is done with functionalities and the necessary security features have been applied. As you have seen many times through out the book, you can deploy your application from JDeveloper directly to the GlassFish server.
However, in a professional software development setting, you will typically want this process to be automated and not dependent on a developer having to perform a manual procedure in the development environment.
After each cycle of test and rework, you need to create a new deliverable package until it passes all tests. Then, the same package goes to the operations staff to install in the pre-production or production environment. In case your package does not install cleanly on this environment, you go back to the drawing board, fix the code or the documentation, and create a new package.
One tool for build automation is Apache Ant (http://ant.apache.org). This open source tool is included with JDeveloper (in the jdeveloper\ant subdirectory...
