2. Oracle Application Express

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4. Oracle Application Express (Oracle APEX)
Fully supported no-cost feature of Oracle DB
Distributed with
Oracle Enterprise Edition
Oracle Standard Edition
Oracle Standard Edition One
Oracle XE
Supported Database Releases
10gR2
11gR1
11gR2

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HTML DB 1.5 [2004]
First Release
HTML DB 1.6 [2004]
Themes
HTML DB 2.0 [2005]
SQL Workshop
Application Express 2.1 [2006]
Oracle XE
Application Express 2.2 [2006]
Packaged Applications
Application Express 3.0 [2007]
Flash Charts, PDF Printing, Access Migration
Application Express 3.1 [2008]
Interactive Reports
Application Express 3.2 [2009]
Oracle Forms Conversion
Application Express 4.0 [2010]
Websheets, Dynamic Actions, Plug-Ins, Team Development
Application Express 4.1 [2011]
Data Upload, Error Handling, ROWID
History

6. Oracle Application Express (Oracle APEX)
Community
Estimated 400,000 developers worldwide
Over 120 consulting companies worldwide
Over 75 bloggers
3rd most popular forum on OTN
Web sites dedicated to plug-ins, themes, tools
64 sessions and > 300 APEX Developers at ODTUG KScope 12

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Books

8. Oracle Technology Network (OTN)

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Benefits
Rapid Browser Based Development
Leverage SQL Skills
Point your browser and start developing
Build reports and charts using SQL
Self Service Provisioning
Runs within Database
Out-of-the-box elastic private cloud service
Simple to manage, highly scalable

11. Browser Based Application Development

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Component: Application Builder

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Component: SQL Workshop

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Component: Team Development

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Component: Administration and Analytics

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Architectural Overview
Simple 2-Tier Architecture
Pages dynamically rendered using database Meta data
No code generation or file based compilation
Runs everywhere Oracle Database runs

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Development / Deployment Options
Locally
Install on Stand-alone machine
Multi-tenant Private Cloud
Workspaces for each department
Self-service provisioning model
Public Cloud
Oracle Database Cloud Service
Hosting partners
Amazon EC2

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Multi-Tenant Hosting
IT manage Database services
Departments manage application development
Self-service provisioning of workspaces
Free hosted development service

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Integrated Solutions

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Use Cases
Data-driven Applications
Develop opportunistic and departmental productivity applications
Online Reporting
Build SQL-based reporting applications on existing database schemas
Spreadsheet Web-ification
Convert spreadsheets to Web applications where they can be concurrently viewed and edited
Access Replacement
Consolidate outgrown Access applications to the Oracle database with an APEX Web front end
Oracle Forms Modernization
Leverage SQL & PL/SQL declarative programming skills to move Forms applications to HTML / Web 2.0

21. Oracle Application Express (Oracle APEX)
Out of the Box Development Features
Reports
Validations
Translation Services
Forms
Processes
Conditional Processing
Charts
Computations
Authentication
Calendar
Branches
Authorization
Templates
Web Services
Session State Management
Navigation
Services
Logging & Monitoring

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Interoperate with spreadsheets with upload and download

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Powerful Interactive Reports

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Drag and Drop Calendars

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Robust SQL based charts and maps

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Advanced Master Detail with Declarative Validations

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Declarative Tabular Forms

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Declarative Javascript and AJAX with Dynamic Actions

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Extend Framework with Plug-Ins

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Websheets
Database enabled WIKI
Annotations (easily add files, links, notes, and tags)
Use [[SQL ]] tag
Presentation mode
Multi user

31. Mobile Application Builder (4.2)
Declarative support for building mobile web applications
APEX Applications support multiple user interfaces: e.g. Desktop, Smartphone, Tablet, others
Mobile pages use jQuery Mobile through jQuery Mobile based themes and templates
HTML5 based charts and new HTML5 item types
Now that jQuery Mobile has gone production, with version 1.0 now available, we have integrated this version with our 4.2 release. A requirement of this release is to have jQuery installed, which has also been integrated, along with jQuery , with our upcoming release.
Application Builder enhancements to declarative building of Mobile applications: The Application Builder is being enhanced to support the declarative building of mobile applications. Among the numerous changes made are: Updated Create Application wizard to support generation of applications for Desktop or Mobile; Updated Create Page and Region wizards, to
Expose Components applicable to Mobile applications: Only show components applicable to Mobile applications i.e. only considered if the current page template is Mobile.  This application property/attribute would be called "Visible Mobile Components" - an Application Builder setting, to ensure we only expose the correct components for the given page template.  Options are: "Mobile Only", "Mobile and PhoneGap", and "All".  If in flexible mode, but switch back to restrictive mode, we need to include a check to ensure that only supported components are used within the application.
Mobile Detection: We hope to incorporate a Server side detection in 4.2., to detect whether the user is using a mobile devive. This will possibly be in the form of a new Condition type(s) e.g. Interaction with a Touch device; Equal to CSS Media Queries.  The check could be similar to the existing Timezone detection flag - hide the link (unlike the Set Timezone option in 4.1.1)
Modernizr - to determine if it's a Touchscreen device - the setting should be passed over to the server side.

32. Packaged Applications (4.2)
Suite of Business Productivity applications installable with only a few clicks
Production-ready applications include Project Management, Shared Calendars, Checklists, etc.
Support for Third party applications, sharing same infrastructure and user pool
Sample applications (Download APEX 4.1 versions from OTN)
Oracle Application Express includes a number of packaged business applications, which are available free of charge, can be used as production applications and will be supported by Oracle. These applications enable customers to improve their business processes and secondly, a set of sample feature applications have been designed to help customers quickly understand specific capabilities of Application Express.
The packaged applications are locked and can't be modified by customers. Customers who wish to modify a packaged applications or simply review its implementation will be able to unlock the application. Once unlocked, the application is no longer supported by Oracle and can no longer be updated. Customers can always return to a supported version by removing the unlocked copy and re-installing the locked version.

33. RESTful Web Services (4.2 + AL 2.0)
Interaction with data sources through the use of Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs) *
Standard method of accessing data in the Oracle Cloud
Ability to create services which implement any SQL statement or PL/SQL procedure
Data returned in JSON or CSV format, or additionally through PL/SQL
RESTful Web Services in APEX 4.2 provides stateless access to data and logic, through the use of SQL and PL/SQL with the Oracle APEX Listener

35. Oracle Database Cloud Service