2. Application Express 4.1 New Features Hilary Farrell, Principal Member of Technical Staff, Oracle

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4. © 2011 Oracle Corporation – Proprietary Agenda Oracle Application Express Overview New Features in 4.1 Beyond Oracle APEX 4.1… Q&A

5. © 2011 Oracle Corporation – Proprietary Oracle Application Express Overview

6. Oracle Application Express (Oracle APEX) Browser Based Application Development © 2011 Oracle Corporation – Proprietary

7. Runs within DatabaseSelf Service Provisioning Leverage SQL SkillsRapid Browser Based Development Point your browser and start developingBuild reports and charts using SQL Out-of-the-box elastic private cloud serviceSimple to manage, highly scalable Oracle Application Express (Oracle APEX) Benefits © 2011 Oracle Corporation – Proprietary

8. Oracle Application Express (Oracle APEX) Architectural Overview Simple 2-Tier Architecture Pages dynamically rendered using database Metadata No code generation or file based compilation Runs Everywhere Oracle Database Runs © 2011 Oracle Corporation – Proprietary

9. 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 © 2011 Oracle Corporation – Proprietary

10. New Features in 4.1

11. © 2011 Oracle Corporation – Proprietary Development for Mobile Applications Provide themes & HTML templates suitable for smart phones and mobile devices  jQuery Mobile – currently 1.0 Alpha 3 released  Dynamic List Support  Improved HTML out of the box New Features in 4.1

12. © 2011 Oracle Corporation – Proprietary Demonstration Development for Mobile Applications

13. © 2011 Oracle Corporation – Proprietary Improved Tabular Form Validations & Processes Tabular Forms now support all the same validation types as a Page Item (e.g. PL/SQL Expression, Exists, etc) Allow referencing of Tabular Form column values in Validations and Processes using Bind Variable syntax:  :COLUMN_NAME  Built-in Bind variables: APEX$ROW_SELECTOR, APEX$ROW_NUM and APEX$ROW_STATUS Validations & Processes are fired for each submitted row of a Tabular Form Advisor has been enhanced to check for valid Tabular Form columns New Features in 4.1

14. © 2011 Oracle Corporation – Proprietary Demonstration Improved Tabular Form Validations

15. © 2011 Oracle Corporation – Proprietary Dynamic Action Enhancements Enhance conditional processing & allow Dynamic Actions to be defined for:  Tabular Forms  Reports  Buttons New Features in 4.1

16. © 2011 Oracle Corporation – Proprietary Plug-In Enhancements Increased Number of Custom Attributes to 15 New Attribute Type - ‘Checkboxes’ Add plug-in Support for  Authentication Schemes  Authorization Schemes  Tabular Form Columns Attribute Usability Enhancements in Application Builder New Features in 4.1

17. © 2011 Oracle Corporation – Proprietary Demonstration Plug-in Enhancements

18. © 2011 Oracle Corporation – Proprietary Use of ROWID Allow usage of ROWID for Automatic DML Processing Tables with > 2 Primary Key(PK) columns Supported Support for PK columns that are also a Foreign Key Alternative to identification of Primary Key columns Ability to create Form, Form & Report or Tabular Form on Table or View with no Primary Key New Features in 4.1

19. © 2011 Oracle Corporation – Proprietary Demonstration Use of ROWID

20. © 2011 Oracle Corporation – Proprietary Websheets Enhancements Improved User Interface – offers greater control New Page Section Type – PL/SQL Query using Datagrid New Features in 4.1

21. © 2011 Oracle Corporation – Proprietary Demonstration Websheets Enhancements

22. © 2011 Oracle Corporation – Proprietary Many Functional & Performance Improvements Improved Error Handling Improved Accessibility in existing themes & HTML templates Data Upload Revised Create Wizards – fewer steps New AnyChart Flash Charts New CKEditor Version 3.5 Statement of Direction: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/developer- tools/apex/application-express/apex-sod-087560.html http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/developer- tools/apex/application-express/apex-sod-087560.html New Features in 4.1

23. © 2011 Oracle Corporation – Proprietary Beyond Oracle APEX 4.1…

24. © 2011 Oracle Corporation – Proprietary Proposed Future Release Features Modal Dialogues Multiple Tabular Forms on One Page Master-Detail-Detail Support  Dependent on Multiple Tabular Forms on One Page Multiple Interactive Reports on One Page HTML5 Charts Support Beyond Oracle APEX 4.1…

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