a.s.a.p. APEX

a.s.a.p. APEX
Productivity in Oracle Forms to Application Express Conversion.
Oracle OpenWorld 2009 - Unconference

Program
From Forms to APEX
Conversion (What, Why & How)
Project & Approach
Iterations & Modules
Redesign

Forms vs. APEX
Application Express
http server
Html
Web
Forms
OC4J
Jinitiator
JAVA Applet
“Desktop”

Forms & APEX
Declarative
PL/SQL & SQL
Oracle DBMS
Packages, Procedures, Functions and Database Triggers

Forms vs. APEX
Should I stay or Should I go now?
Learning Curve
Skill set
Weeks vs. Months
“Oracle Application Express is Forms for this Millennium”
Taken from the “Oracle Application Express for Forms Developers” presentation from the Oracle Technology Network

Conversion

Conversion
Understand your Project!
Why?
What?
How Much?
When?

Conversion
Create your Project!
Convert to XML
Import into Repository

Conversion
Convert to XML

Conversion
Import into Repository

Conversion
Know your Project!
The Project Page
Elements
Forms Objects
Equivalent Components
Blocks
Logic

Conversion
Generate your Project!
This comes later…

Conversion
Edit your Project!
Applicability
Completion Status
Queries
Logic

Conversion
Generate your Project!
Create Application
Design Models
Pages
Themes

Conversion
Post-GenerationEdit your Project!
UI
Home Page
Lists of Values
…

Project & Approach
Project Page
Completion Status

Project & Approach
Design Patterns
Generated Framework
The Project

Conversion Projects are BIG
Make them Small

Iterations (& Modules)
Development Team
Reduce and Manage Work
Project Page
Assign Developers
Use Tags
Use Multiple Projects

(Iterations &) Modules

(Iterations &) Modules
Modular Design
Design Patterns
Subscriptions
Logic in DBMS
Page Zero

Create Multiple Projects
Functionality is Leading
One Design Pattern
Integrate Post-Generation

Redesign
Functionality & Requirements are Leading
Modules offer the possibility
Needs Project Management

Questions and Discussion
How would you do an APEX (conversion) Project?

More Information
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douwepieter@ome-b.nl
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a.s.a.p. APEX

by Douwe Pieter van den Bos on Oct 15, 2009

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