24.1 About Suggested Environments

Oracle recommends developers follow standard system development life cycle practices when developing applications by having different environments for development, testing, and production.

As a best practice, developers should only make changes to applications and related database objects in the development environment. To further enforce this policy Oracle recommends that you install runtime-only Oracle Application Express environments in your test and production environments. This will prohibit developers from accessing the App Builder and SQL Workshop in these environments. As a general rule, your administrator (DBA) should be the only ones with permission to update the test and production environments. DBAs should use the appropriate provided APIs and import applications from an SQL interface, such as SQL Developer or SQL*Plus.

See Also:

"About the Differences Between Runtime and Full Development Environments"