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Oracle APEX Cookbook : Second Edition

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Oracle APEX Cookbook : Second Edition

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Oracle APEX Cookbook Second Edition
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Setting up version control with APEX and SVN


An important part of any software engineering project is versioning. By keeping different versions of the software in a backup, we can revert back to a previous state of the application when problems arise.

Using a versioning tool has always been a bit of a challenge in Oracle software development. Mainly because most of the time PL/SQL code is kept inside the database. Application Express is no exception to this.

So how can we get a secure and easy-to-use repository of your APEX application? In this recipe we are going to show you by using Subversion (SVN). This is a version control system that is developed under the Apache License, which makes it open source. More information can be found at http://subversion.apache.org/.

Getting ready

First of all make sure you have an SVN server available that you can use for this recipe. If you don't, you can download some software from http://subversion.apache.org/. For this example, we have installed VisualSVN...