XFILES, The APEX 4 version - The truth is in there

XFILES, the APEX 4 version
The truth is in there...
Marco Gralike and Roel Hartman

Oracle since v5, Forms 2.3, Case*Designer etc
Presenter at UKOUG (4x), OOW (3x), Collab (1x), ODTUG (2x), OBUG, OGH, etc..
Oracle ACE Director [DB Dev]
Co-author of Expert Oracle Application Express
roelhartman.blogspot.com
Whatabout me?
RoelH

Whatabout me?
Oracle DBA since v6 (1993), XML-DB since (2003)
Presenter (among others): UKOUG, Oracle Open World,MOW, Hotsos, OGH, OPP, ODTUG, UKOUG
Oracle 11gRx database, XBRL Extension Beta trails
Oracle ACE Director [XML-DB]
OakTable member
Customer Advisory Member Board XML-DB Oracle 12x

History

XFILES - XMLDB
XML-DB Demo Application
GUI basedon AJAX / HTML
Currentversion XFILES version V
Mark Drake
Senior Product Manager
Oracle XML-DB
Demonstrates(amongothers)
Native Database WebServices (NDWS) / SOA
GeoInformationbased XML handling

XFILES - APEX
APEX GUI
W/ help of CarlBackstrom
XFILES version IV
Oracle Open World 2008
DemonstratedCombined Power
APEX (V 3)
XML-DB (V 11.1)
Versioning & Lightweight Application Security

XML-DB
Basedon XML (&Related) Standards
XML Handling
Stores, Consumes, Generates, Validation
XDB Repository
HTTP(s), FTP & WebDAV
RepositoryEvents
SupportsSecurity(ACL’s)&Versioning
XPath V2, XSLT V1, XQuery V1, XBRL

Features Used
XDB Repository
Versioning, CheckIn/Out functionality
DBMS_XDB_VERSION
Resource (file, folder) manipulation
DBMS_XDB
Default XDB ACL Driven Security

XDB Repository Resources
Access to XDB Repository
PATH_VIEW, RESOURCE_VIEW
XDB$Resource
XDBResource.xsd
XMLType Table (Schema based XML Table)
Select, Update, Delete
UNDER_PATH, EQUALS_PATH

Version Control
Create Resource
Lock the Resource
MakeitVersioned
Check itOut
Update the Resource
Check It In
UnLockthe Resource

Process Flow
# Create file / dbms_xdb.createResource
dbms_xdb.lockResource
dbms_xdb_version.makeVersioned
dbms_xdb_version.checkOut
# Update file content
dbms_xdb_version.checkIn
dbms_xdb.unlockResource
# Done…

Create Versioned Resource

Get Resource Info

XMLTable Statement

VERSION

Version Control
APEX has no files – at least, not a lot
APEXExport Utility
Export fromBuilder
Export from SQL Developer
VersionControlfor APEX isn’tthat
different from PL/SQL !

XML-DB - Versioning

Version Control
apex_util.export_application
apex_util.export_application_page
apex_util.export_application_component
Issues :
undocumented and unsupported
USER instead of CURRENT_USER (4.1?)
Developedfor SQL Developer/Plus

Version Control
SYS.DBMS_SCHEDULER.CREATE_JOB (
job_name => '"XFILES"."EXPORT_PAGE"',
job_type => 'STORED_PROCEDURE',
job_action => 'XFILES4_VC.EXPORT_APEX_PAGE',
number_of_arguments => 5,
start_date => NULL,
repeat_interval => NULL,
end_date => NULL,
job_class => 'DEFAULT_JOB_CLASS',
enabled => false,
auto_drop => false,
comments => 'Job to Export APEX Application into XML-DB',
credential_name => NULL,
destination_name => NULL);

Version Control
start job
set arguments and run job
export procedure
apex_util procedure
capture OWA output
convert to BLOB
newversion in XML DB

Buy thisBook

Questions

Conclusions
APEX / XMLDB
Extreme Powerful Combination
Functionality
APEXPowerful Database Driven Mature
Web Development Environment
XMLDBVersioning / Security Build-in
Easy PL/SQL based Automation Possible

To Do List
27
To do list :
Download XFILES
from
<where?>

Thank you
Logica | Meander 901 P.O. Box 7015 | 6801 HA Arnhem | The Netherlands | www.logica.com
Contact: Roel Hartman - Lead Technical Architect Oracle: +31 (0) 26 3765 000 M: +31 (0) 6 2954 3729 E: roel.hartman@logica.com
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