Deploying the application

With all of the development scaffolding removed from your application and the standalone application server prepared, it is time to deploy the application. Initially, you will do this directly from JDeveloper to the standalone development server, but the end goal is to deploy your application to an EAR file that you can hand over to an application server administrator to install.

Note

If you are building a new database or have made any changes to an existing one, you also need to deliver matching database scripts.

Direct deployment

For the first test of your deployment procedure, you should deploy your application directly from JDeveloper to the application server. This approach gives you more feedback and makes it easier to fix any deployment errors. This is also the approach that you normally use to deploy to the standalone development server that the development team owns.

Creating an application server connection

To deploy your application directly from JDeveloper...