1. A computer program product, comprising a non-transitory computer usable medium having a computer readable program code embodied therein, the computer readable program code adapted to be executed to implement a method, the method comprising: creating at least one package that references a set of one or more metadata objects describing an application; editing the at least one package; verifying automatically the at least one package; and exporting the at least one package; wherein the verifying occurs prior to installation of the application; wherein the at least one package includes at least one of an object, a field, and a relationship.