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2. 2 Oracle Application Express 4.2 Anthony Rayner, Product Development, Database Tools

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4. 4 Copyright © 2012, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Agenda Oracle Application Express Overview New Features in 4.2 Beyond Oracle APEX 4.2… Q&A Skip Overview

5. 5 Copyright © 2012, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 5 Oracle Application Express Overview Oracle Application Express (Oracle APEX) is a rapid web application development tool for the Oracle database. Using only a web browser and limited programming experience, you can develop and deploy professional applications that are both fast and secure. Oracle APEX is a fully supported, no cost feature of the Oracle database.

6. 6 Copyright © 2012, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Oracle Application Express (Oracle APEX) Browser Based Application Development

7. 7 Copyright © 2012, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Oracle Application Express (Oracle APEX) Benefits 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

8. 8 Copyright © 2012, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Oracle Application Express (Oracle APEX) 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

9. 9 Copyright © 2012, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 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 10.2, 11.2 Supported Database Releases – 10gR2, 11gR1, 11gR2, 12 – Exadata, ODA, RAC

10. 10 Copyright © 2012, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Oracle Application Express (Oracle APEX) History 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

11. 11 Copyright © 2012, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Oracle Application Express (Oracle APEX) Community Estimated 400,000 developers worldwide Over 120 consulting companies worldwide Over 75 bloggers 3 rd 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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15. 15 Copyright © 2012, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Mobile Application Builder  Declarative support for building mobile web applications  APEX Applications support multiple user interfaces: e.g. Desktop and Smartphone  Mobile pages use jQuery Mobile through jQuery Mobile based theme and templates  HTML5 based charts and new HTML5 item types

16. 16 Copyright © 2012, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Mobile Application Builder  User Interfaces APEX applications can be associated with multiple user interfaces Applications can include desktop and mobile specific pages Each Page supports only one user interface Each user interface is associated with one theme User Interface defines device specific login URLs, home page URLs and device auto detection Page 0 replaced by Global Page(s)

17. 17 Copyright © 2012, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Mobile Application Builder UI Types Application Pages User Interfaces Themes 1 1 1 1 11 n nnn Plug-Ins n 1 1 1

18. 18 Copyright © 2012, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Mobile Themes and Templates  Provide Themes & HTML Templates to support the development of Mobile applications Theme 50  Declarative support to specify JavaScript & CSS  Default Mobile Page and Popup Transition Type

19. 19 Copyright © 2012, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Mobile Themes and Templates  Support Content Delivery Networks for jQuery files  New #PAGE_STATIC_ID# substitution string added to page templates  Easy to Create your own Mobile themes – Check out jQuery Mobile built-in theming framework Themeroller for ideas: http://jquerymobile.com/themeroller/ http://jquerymobile.com/themeroller/

20. 20 Copyright © 2012, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. List View Region Type  jQuery Mobile List view using data-role="listview" attribute  Server Side AJAX search  AJAX based pagination  Support of the "Refresh" dynamic action

21. 21 Copyright © 2012, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. HTML5 Charts  HTML5 charts - AnyChart version 6  2 Chart Rendering options Flash Preferred HTML5  Conditional Display of Chart Series  HTML Chart region plug-in

22. 22 Copyright © 2012, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. HTML5 Item Types  New Items Types: Slider Date Picker (HTML 5) Yes/No (Flip Toggle Switch)  Incorporate HTML 5 attributes: HTML5 placeholder attribute HTML5 types EMAIL, TEL and URL for Textfield HTML5 “required” attribute Display Orientation attribute

23. 23 Copyright © 2012, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Mobile Calendars  Added mobile-friendly calendar templates  Added new calendar view option: List view Demo

24. 24 Copyright © 2012, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Responsive Web Design (RWD) an approach to web design in which a designer intends to provide an optimal viewing experience—easy reading and navigation with a minimum of resizing, panning, and scrolling—across a wide range of devices (from desktop computer monitors to mobile phones). (Wikipedia)

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30. 30 Copyright © 2012, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Themes and Templates  Responsive Design = Theme 25 Desktop Cell Phone / Tablet Demo

31. 31 Copyright © 2012, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Dynamic Action Enhancements  Streamline creation (no more ‘Standard’ and ‘Advanced’)  Enable jQuery Mobile  Expose jQuery Mobile events through Dynamic Actions e.g. swipe, touch, tap/hold, orientation  Provide ‘Custom’ event support  Declarative support for buttons to be the ‘Affected Element’  AJAX based Dynamic Actions to work asynchronously  Chart and List View ‘Refresh’ Dynamic Actions support Demo

32. 32 Copyright © 2012, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Plug-In Enhancements  Increased Number of Custom Attributes to 25  New APIs in apex_plugin_util to better support custom plug-in attributes of type "Region Column Name "  New Standard Region Type Plug-in Settings: ‘Fetched Rows’ ‘No Data Found Message’  Add support for media queries and IE conditions to apex_css and apex_javascript APIs

33. 33 Copyright © 2012, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Packaged Applications  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

34. 34 Copyright © 2012, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Packaged Applications  Productivity Apps Project Tracker Checklist Manager Customer Tracker Group Calendar Product Features Bug Tracker Asset Manager Document Library Survey Builder  Sample Code Calendars Charts Data Loading Dynamic Actions Interactive Reports Master-Detail Forms Tabular Forms Trees Sample Database Application Sample Websheets

35. 35 Copyright © 2012, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Data Upload Enhancements  Allow up to 3 columns in Look-up Definition  Expand transformation rules to include PL/SQL  Provide aliases for column names Demo

36. 36 Copyright © 2012, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Other New Features in APEX 4.2  Enhanced Application Builder User Interface  Dedicated JavaScript / CSS Attributes  Grid Layout  Named Branches  Read-only attribute for Pages and Regions  Interactive Report and Websheet enhancements  Instance Administration improvements

37. 37 Copyright © 2012, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Other, Other New Features in APEX 4.2  Item limit per page raised to 200  Shared Session State across Applications  JavaScript library rewrite / “Legacy” JavaScript  New jQuery, AnyGantt and CKEditor charts versions  SQL Workshop Date Format  Publish Translations from command-line  Improved Accessibility Demo

38. 38 Copyright © 2012, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. RESTful Web Services*  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 * Requires APEX Listener 2.0

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40. 40 Copyright © 2012, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Instance Security: Require outbound HTTPS  Require all outbound requests to be over HTTPS.  Region of type URL, Web Services

41. 41 Copyright © 2012, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Instance Security: Instance-wide proxy  Require all outbound HTTP(s) traffic use an instance-wide proxy.

42. 42 Copyright © 2012, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Instance Security: Restricted Characters  Input validation  Declarative control over which characters can be entered into session state

43. 43 Copyright © 2012, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Instance Security: Log Switch (Data Retention)  Retention of all logs is variable  Greater log switch interval can result in less performance

44. 44 Copyright © 2012, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Resource Manager Consumer Group  All requests from a workspace can be confined to a resource consumer group

45. 45 Copyright © 2012, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Partitioning of APEX runtime tables  Supported method to partition APEX runtime tables (session data, activity logs and indexes) Instance 2 Instance 3 Instance 1

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48. 48 Copyright © 2012, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Beyond Oracle APEX 4.2…  Proposed Future Release Features  Modal Dialogs  Multiple Tabular Forms on one page  Master-Detail-Detail support  Multiple Interactive Reports on one page

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