Best APEX developing practices?

Hello,
I have a simple question - What are the best APEX developing practices in regards to developing workspaces ?
There are two ways to develop in APEX (when you create an application for internal use, of cause) :
One is to have a workspace per Application - Meaning that you have Developing, Test and Production Application in the same Workspace, and this Workspace would be reserved to one application only. The advantage of this approach is that it is easy to move ready pages (or even the whole application) from Developing to Production - You can simply copy ready pages from one application to another.
The other one is to have a Workspace per Environment - Meaning that you have all your Production applications in one Workspace and all the Development application in another Workspace. In this case, when you have to move a page to Production, you have to export it, and import it to another Workspace. The advantage of this approach is security - you don't work in production...
So I wanted to ask APEX gurus - What is your opinion on that? Are there any Oracle standards for developing in APEX? What is your best working experience in regards to developing applications in APEX, etc..??
Thank you!

Hi Sloger
Keep it simple DEV, TEST and PROD are on separate database instances, preferably on separate servers.
If you only have one box, then develop your app on your PC using XE.
You can have the same workspace id on multiple databases, allowing you to promote between databases easily using SQL*Plus.
As far as on app per workspace, that's entirely up to you.
Multiple applications in a single workspace work very well - after all this is how the APEX team builds the Application Builder.
Regards
Mark
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blog: http://oracleinsights.blogspot.com |
book: https://www.packtpub.com/oracle-application-express-4-0-with-ext-js/book

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