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Application Management
Welcome to the Application Management section of Domino® Designer Help.
Deploying an application
The tasks involved with application design, database design, database management, and DominoTMsystem administration may overlap, depending on the size of your organization and the structure of job responsibilities. In some organizations, an application developer may be responsible for both application and database design, while in others, a database manager may handle all database design and management tasks. In addition, database management overlaps with Domino® system administration.
Setting up replication for an application
As you prepare to deploy an application, you must work with your Domino® server administrator to create a replication plan. Replication allows replica copies of databases to exchange updates. You can replicate both design elements and database content between replica copies. Replication can be unidirectional -- for example you can push out design changes but not receive any, or it can be directional, in which cases changes are both sent and received. Generally you perform design work on one copy of a database -- for example, you might keep a copy on your local hard drive -- then you replicate design changes to database replicas on servers.

Setting up replication for an application

As you prepare to deploy an application, you must work with your Domino® server administrator to create a replication plan. Replication allows replica copies of databases to exchange updates. You can replicate both design elements and database content between replica copies. Replication can be unidirectional -- for example you can push out design changes but not receive any, or it can be directional, in which cases changes are both sent and received. Generally you perform design work on one copy of a database -- for example, you might keep a copy on your local hard drive -- then you replicate design changes to database replicas on servers.

The following topics describe the tasks involved with creating and maintaining replicas. If you have full access rights to post a database on a Domino® server you can perform these tasks yourself; if not, you need to work with a server administrator to create and maintain replicas.