Best practice for sharing LOV's over multiple Application Definitions?

We want to define/generate (complex) LOV's in 1 place and use them in multiple sub-applications (different application definition files).
What is the best practive to accomplish this?
Frank

Frank,
Here is what you do:
- Generate the LOV the "normal" way using your first app def file
- In all other app def files, you create a "dummy" LOV group by the same name with the same items, so you can associate items with the LOV and specifiy return values
- For each "dummy" LOV group uncheck the checkboxes "Generate Pages", "Generate Page Definitions" and "Generate Controller Group". (only visible in expert mode)
- Make sure you first generate the first app def file before you run the [ages generated by other app def files.
Steven Davelaar,
JHeadstart Team.

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