Overview of Deploying Your Application

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

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 Database Application Express User's Guide.
Define your supporting objects. This includes the object definitions you collected in the previous step as well as other supporting objects, such as messages and prerequisites.
Export the application with its supporting objects.
Import and install the exported files.

Using 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.