Beginning Oracle Application Express 4.2

✍ Scribed by Doug Gault, Karen Cannell, Patrick Cimolini, Martin D’Souza, Timothy St. Hilaire (auth.)

• Publisher: Apress
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 433
• Edition: 2
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Beginning Oracle Application Express 4.2 introduces version 4.2 of the popular and productive Oracle Application Express development platform. Called APEX for short, the platform enables rapid and easy development of web-based applications that make full use of Oracle Database. The release of APEX 4.2 brings extensive new Flash and HTML 5 charting capabilities, enhanced themes for mobile applications usable from phones and tablets, RESTful web services support, enhanced application packaging, and the many redesigned wizards give a new and fresh feel to the user interface.

Whether you're new to Oracle or an old hand who's yet to test the waters of APEX, Beginning Oracle Application Express 4.2 introduces the processes and best practices you'll need to become proficient with APEX. The book shows off the programming environment, the utilities and tools available, and then continues by walking through the process of building a working system from the ground up. All code is documented and explained so that those new to the languages will not be lost. After reading this book, power users and programmers alike can quickly put together robust and scalable applications for use by one person, by a department, by an entire company.

• Covers brand-new functionality in APEX 4.2
• Provides fully documented and explained example code
• Guides you through creating a working and fully deployable application

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xxiii
An Introduction to APEX 4.2....Pages 1-5
A Developer’s Overview....Pages 7-28
Identifying the Problem and Designing the Solution....Pages 29-35
SQL Workshop....Pages 37-54
Applications and Navigation....Pages 55-95
Forms and Reports—The Basics....Pages 97-151
Forms and Reports—Advanced....Pages 153-202
Programmatic Elements....Pages 203-233
Security....Pages 235-261
Application Bundling and Deployment....Pages 263-282
Understanding Websheets....Pages 283-310
A Websheet Example....Pages 311-327
Extended Developer Tools....Pages 329-350
Managing Workspaces....Pages 351-367
Team Development....Pages 369-396
Dynamic Actions....Pages 397-411
Back Matter....Pages 413-422

✦ Subjects

Computer Science, general