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Oracle Visual Builder: Applications That Outlive Their First Release · Module 14 · Source control, environments and publishing

Lab briefing · Promote and prove it is isolated

Lesson 147 of 176 · 3 min

Move an application BETWEEN TWO ENVIRONMENTS, complete THE CHECKLIST, and DEMONSTRATE IT CANNOT REACH THE SOURCE ENVIRONMENT. The third instruction is the lab. Promoting is a procedure; proving the old environment is unreachable is the only thing that establishes the promotion actually happened. MOVE SOMETHING WITH SEVERAL CONNECTIONS RATHER THAN ONE. A single-connection application is promoted correctly by accident. Two or three, with at least one address somewhere other than a connection — in a JavaScript function, or a link — is the realistic case, and it is Lesson 6's hunt in miniature. RUN LESSON 7'S CHECKLIST AND TICK IT LITERALLY, EVEN THOUGH YOU WROTE IT. The point of this lab is partly to find out how easy it is to do five of six while believing you did all of them. THEN PROVE THE NEGATIVE, WHICH IS THE HALF PEOPLE SKIP. The application working against the new environment proves

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In this module: Module 14 · Source control, environments and publishing

  1. 1What a publish actually doesFree preview
  2. 2Versions, and living with two
  3. 3Source control, and why a visual tool still needs it
  4. 4Branching and more than one developer
  5. 5Environments, and what differs between them
  6. 6Making endpoints configurable
  7. 7The promotion checklist
  8. 8Rolling back
  9. 9Automating it
  10. 10What breaks: four promotion failures
  11. 11Lab briefing · Promote and prove it is isolated