Overview of Deploying Your Application

After building your application in your development environment, you need deploy it so that end users can begin using it. Deploying involves the following steps:

1. Collect your supporting object definitions (CREATE object statements, sample data, images, files, and so on). Review the Database Dependencies report to determine which supporting objects to move. See "Viewing Application Reports" in Oracle Application Express Application Builder User's Guide.

2. Define your supporting objects. This includes the object definitions you collected in the previous step and other supporting objects, such as messages and prerequisites.

3. Export the application with its supporting objects.

4. Import and install the exported files.

Using Oracle Application Express greatly simplifies the deployment process. It enables you to migrate the application definition, associated files, and all supporting objects in just a few steps.