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TiTLE : Beginning Oracle Application Express (Wrox Programmer to
Programmer)

AUTHOR : Rick Greenwald

PUBLISHER : Wrox

iSBN : 0470388374 MAKER : Team DDU

PAGES : 384 Pages PACKAGER : Team DDU

EDiTiON : December 22, 2008 SUPPLiER : Team DDU

LANGUAGE : ENGLISH FORMAT : PDF

RLS DATE : 04/24/2009 SiZE : 18.4 MB

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Oracle Application Express is an easy-to-use application
development environment built on the Oracle technology stack. There
are two aspects of that previous sentence that you may find
jarring--that Oracle, a company widely known for its database
technology, has an application development environment, and that
Oracle, a company thought of as delivering high-end, enterprise-
ready technology, has anything that is easy to use.
But, as this book will show, the introductory statement is
completely accurate. Oracle Application Express, commonly known as
Oracle APEX or simply APEX, does benefit from the long-established
enterprise-class robustness that is the hallmark of Oracle
technology. The applications you build will be able to support
hundreds of users and many terabytes of data, scalability far
beyond even the imagination of most other development environments.
And Oracle APEX, with its declarative, wizard-driven methodology,
is truly easy to use. In the course of the few hundred pages of
this book, you will not only learn about how to use APEX, you will
create a usable order entry system. The fast learning curve
presented in these pages is a consequence of many years of
development and refinement of the APEX product, which began life
almost a decade ago within Oracle.
By the end of this volume, you will know enough to create your own
applications, as well as having the knowledge and understanding of
Oracle APEX and the world of Oracle technology to explore further
refinements on your own.
Best of all, you can use APEX with absolutely no cost--either in a
hosted environment, as suggested in Chapter 1, or with a free
version of the Oracle database.
Welcome to the world of Oracle Application Express!
This book is aimed at a particular group of users--those who are
not familiar with Oracle Application Express. The book assumes that
you have a basic knowledge of application development, the type you
could get from playing around with a personal database such as
Access. In fact, this book was written with an Access developer in
mind--an Access developer looking to step up to a more scalable and
reliable environment, with reduced maintenance overhead and greater
integration between application systems.
This book covers the use of Oracle Application Express. Although
the book is based on the 3.5 version, you can use the book with
older versions as well. However, since the book will use a hosted
version of Oracle Application Express, and since both the Oracle
database that support the product and the product itself are
available as free downloads from http://otn.oracle.com, you should
be able to use the latest version easily.
This book is structured to give the reader a gradual introduction
to the essentials of development with Oracle Application Express.
The book contains the following:
--
Welcome to Oracle!--This contains an overview of Oracle Application
Express, as well as instructions on how to set up a hosted
development environment for performing the exercises used in the
book.
--
Jumpstart Oracle Application Express--You will leap into creating
applications with Oracle Application Express and finish a simple
application by the end of this.
--
Extending Your Oracle APEX Application--This will introduce you to
the options in Oracle APEX that let you ensure that your users will
enter correct data while using your application.
--
Validation, Calculation, Navigation, and Lists--This continues the
exploration of the aspects of APEX that help you to ensure that
data used in your application is correct. Additionally, this covers
basic navigation options for your application.
--
Reporting and Charting--This covers the powerful and flexible
reports you can create with Oracle APEX, and introduces you to the
graphical capabilities of APEX reporting.
--
Components Working Together--This extends your work with charts,
showing how you can create charts that link to a more detailed view
of the data they represent. You will also learn how to create a
calendar page with links to the data shown as part of the calendar,
and how to add images taken from the underlying database to an
Oracle APEX report.
--
Customizing User Interfaces--This explores advanced options for
customizing user interfaces, on individual pages as well as across
your entire APEX application.
--
PL/SQL--This introduces you to PL/SQL, the underlying language used
to implement your APEX application, and demonstrates how to use the
power of PL/SQL to extend the logic in your application.
--
Security--This covers how security is implemented for your APEX
environment.
--
Deployment and Administration--This covers the options you have for
deploying an APEX application to another environment and walks you
through one of those options. Additionally, this introduces you to
the administrative functionality you can use to monitor and manage
your APEX applications.
--
Packaged Applications--This gives an overview of packaged
applications available for Oracle Application Express, with a more
detailed look at a select few.
--
Migration--This describes how to migrate applications from
Microsoft Access to Oracle Application Express.


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