Deve/Test/Production Environments

My W2K laptop has Persoanl 9i and Forms (9.0.4). This is developemnt.
I would like to set up a test environment using Forms & Reports Services on a W2K server. Do I need the appserver or can I use OC4J as the "appserver" ? Also, can I load 10g Lite on the same server (as either OC4J or the appserver)?
For Production I assume I need the appserver and Forms & Reports Services. We will have no more than 50 users. Is that overkill or is OC4J ok? DB will be on a seperate server/box for production.
TIA for your help and input.
Ed.

Kevin,
The product does include export/import scripts for moving pages, content areas, and applications between instances. Search on "export" in the online help for the documentation. I will say that these utilities were a bit unstable in the EA release, and even in production they must be run from the command line (except for Application export). We have plans to make these utilities easier to use in a future release, and we're also looking at other ways to support propagation of content from development to production.
Regards,
Jerry

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Though the PDF does give a basic idea as to how we can go about the deployments using ANT and EM in Test and Prod, it doesn't really give extensive details. For eg. ANT would obviously need huge ANT scripts to be written for migrations to multiple Test servers, etc.
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