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Package your application, or not?
Oracle APEX allows you to create a self-contained application. This means that all
necessary components are all bundled together in a single deployment script. All the
database tables, stored procedures, images, JavaScript iles, CSS iles, and of course
the APEX application itself, are bundled together. If all the components you need to
install the application are in a single ile, then deployment is very easy.
One of the new features that will be included in Oracle APEX 4.2 is an exchange of
packaged applications. Packaged applications are not only created by Oracle itself, but
also by independent developers. The Oracle packaged applications were previously
known as
packaged applications
, and mainly served as example applications.
Nowadays, they are fully functional and can be used as productivity boosters. Instead
of having to develop your own bug tracking application, use the packaged application
provided by Oracle. Oracle will support their own packaged applications and will be
available when you use the Oracle Database Cloud service. The packaged application
provided by Oracle will be locked when you install it into your own environment. It
is not possible to edit and modify the locked application. When this is required, the
application will need to be unlocked. Doing so will make the application ineligible for
future upgrades and will no longer be supported by Oracle.
To create your own packaged application, you would need to navigate to the
Supporting Objects
page from within the context of your application.
Figure 1: Main application builder menu
On the
Supporting Objects
page, you can create a packaged application. You can get
to this page by clicking on the
Supporting Objects
icon on the application builder
page (see
Figure 1
).
