Chapter 6. Deploy and Maintain

When you are done with the building phase of your application, you need to deploy it. Deployment can be done in several ways. One way is to create a packaged application. The deployment of a packaged application is very straightforward—simply follow the import wizard and you're done. However, the preparation to create a packaged application can be quite cumbersome.

Another way to deploy your application would be to separate all different components, such as database objects and JavaScript files, into a "deployment per type". This makes the deployment more complicated, but it is easier to patch or upgrade a small part of the application. In this way, the maintenance phase of your application will be easier. Both of these different approaches have their pros and cons.

Deploying your application to the users is only part of the job. After this step is done, your job is not over. At this moment, your users really start working with the application, and encounter...