Expert Oracle Application Express

Front Cover
Expert Oracle Application Express brings you groundbreaking insights into developing with Oracle’s enterprise-level, rapid-development tool from some of the best practitioners in the field today. Oracle Application Express (APEX) is an entirely web-based development framework that is built into every edition of Oracle Database. The framework rests upon Oracle’s powerful PL/SQL language, enabling power users and developers to rapidly develop applications that easily scale to hundreds, even thousands of concurrent users.

The 13 authors of Expert Oracle Application Express build their careers around APEX. They know what it takes to make the product sing—developing secure applications that can be deployed globally to users inside and outside a large enterprise. The authors come together in this book to share some of their deepest and most powerful insights into solving the difficult problems surrounding scalability, globalization, configuration and lifecycle management, and more. You’ll learn about debugging and performance, deep secrets to customizing your application user interface, how to secure applications from intrusion, and about deploying globally in multiple languages. Expert Oracle Application Express is truly a book that will move you and your skillset a big step towards the apex of Application Express development.

  • Presents best-practices and development insights from leading experts in the field
  • Addresses globalization, scalability, security, and other concerns of enterprise-level development
  • Shows how to customize APEX for your own application needs
 

Contents

Chapter 1 OHS EPG and APEX Listener Compared
1
Chapter 2 Oracle APEX 40 Charts Inside Out
73
Chapter 3 Tabular Forms
155
Chapter 4 Team Development
211
Chapter 5 Globalization
241
Chapter 6 Debugging
271
Chapter 7 Dynamic Actions
309
Chapter 8 Security
349
Chapter 9 Lifecycle Management
377
Chapter 10 Working with APEX Collections
423
Chapter 11 PlugIns
441
Chapter 12 Architecture
515
Chapter 13 Advanced Interactive Reporting
533
Index
571
Copyright

Other editions - View all

Common terms and phrases

About the author (2011)

John Edward Scott has been using Oracle since version 7 (around 1993), and has used pretty much every release since then. He has had the good fortune to work on a wide range of projects for a varied group of clients. He was lucky enough to start working with Oracle Application Express when it was first publicly released, and has worked with it nearly every day since (and loves it). John is an Oracle ACE Director and was named Application Express Developer of the Year in 2006 by Oracle Magazine. He is also the cofounder of ApexEvangelists (Apex-Evangelists.com), a company that specializes in providing training, development, and consulting specifically for the Oracle Application Express product. You can contact John at john.scott@apex-evangelists.com.