Oracle APEX is a low-code application development tool that allows users to easily and quickly build powerful and responsive web apps leveraging their SQL skills. It provides an integrated development environment where users can develop entire apps directly from their web browser. Apps are built on top of the Oracle database for high performance and scalability. Oracle APEX itself is a free and fully supported feature of all editions of the Oracle database.

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Oracle Application Express - APEX
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Free
Introduction to Oracle APEX
https://apex.oracle.com

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Oracle APEX - What does APEX let you do?
• Easily and quickly create powerful, responsive and beautiful apps
• Leverage your SQL skills
• Develop entire app from your web browser
• Leverage extensions and expertise from a large enthusiastic community
• Develop on the cloud, on your laptop, on prem, on third party clouds, in virtual box..
• Free https://apex.oracle.com service to prototype, learn and share
• No cost solution (when used on apex.oracle.com or with Oracle Database XE)
Free

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Oracle APEX – A no cost feature of the Oracle Database
• No-cost fully supported feature
• Any number of apps, developers & end-users
• Supported with Oracle 11gR2, 12c, 18c, 19c
• All DB editions: EE, SE2, XE (Free edition)
• Included with Oracle Cloud Services
• No cost evaluation service http://apex.oracle.com
• Exadata Express Service and Database as a Service
• http://cloud.oracle.com/database
• Easy to install
• Included by default with all editions of Oracle database
• Download latest release from https://apex.oracle.com/otn
Free

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Oracle APEX – Database Centric Web Appdev Framework
Develop responsive
beautiful web apps
Visualize and
maintain
Database data
Leverage SQL Skills
and database
capabilities
Free
Oracle APEX is used to build responsive mobile and desktop friendly apps. You can use powerful reporting and charting to visualize and manage data. And best of all for those who know SQL,
Oracle APEX is SQL centric, so if you know SQL you can build web applications.

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Oracle APEX - Architecture
Database Tier
Oracle Database
(Pluggable or Dedicated, 11g, 12c, 18c)
SQL & PL/SQL
Schemas
APEX Engine
Oracle REST Data Services
(Weblogic, Jetty, Tomcat)
JDBCHTTPS
REST, SOAP
Zero latency database data access
Dynamically driven by APEX metadata
No Application Logic
Converts HTTP to database API calls
Mid TierBrowser
Free
Simple architecture where page requests and submissions made from the browser are tunnelled through the mid-tier to execute in the Oracle Database and returned as HTML responses to the
browser. No data manipulation or processing is performed in the mid-tier, instead the APEX engine (inside the Oracle DB) accepts the page, and interacts with the data schemas in the DB.

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Oracle APEX
Rapidly develop, customize, and deliver
Develop Customize Deliver
Go from prototype to production in minutes
Free
At the core of Application Express is an engine that provides a variety of fundamental application capabilities and operations. Application authentication, page/object-level access control, database
interaction (queries/updates etc), form validation, session management and protection, and more is available as standard components that can be utilised from every application without custom
development. Application objects such as forms, reports, charts, navigation are defined declaratively, enabling applications to be functionally complete in a short period of time, increasing agility
in application development.

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Oracle APEX
Low Code Data First Application Development
Existing
Shorthand
Model
SQL Script
SQL IDE
New
Existing
New
Develop Database
Wizard
Blueprint
App Builder
Develop Application
Install & Upgrade
Test Application Production Application
Deploy
Database
Excel
Source Code Control
Export
Metrics & Feedback
Database
Free

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No Code
High Productivity
Business Users
4GL Meta Data Properties
Programmatic
High Control
IT Professional
3GL Procedural Code / Libraries
User Interface
Browser Client Interaction
Business Logic
Oracle APEX
High productivity AppDev components on the no code to highly programmatic spectrum
Components & Data Access
Navigation & Page Flow
Access Control &
Session Management
Low Code
More Control
Citizen Developer
Snippets and plugins
Free

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5 minute from zero to functioning App
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Oracle APEX - 5 minute from zero to functioning App
1. Navigate to https://apex.oracle.com
2. Click Sign In and Request a Workspace
3. From your email; click Create Workspace
4. Click SQL Workshop > Sample Datasets to load sample data
5. Click Create Application
6. Complete the dialog and click Create Application
7. Click Run Application
8. Copy the URL to share with others
Free

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Free

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Free

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Creating an APEX app
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Creating an APEX app, Create sample data set
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Creating an APEX app, click Create App
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Example Oracle internal APEX app
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Example Oracle internal APEX app
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Example Oracle internal APEX app
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Example Oracle internal APEX app
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Features
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• SQL Workshop
• Application Builder
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Oracle APEX – Browser Integrated Development Environment
• Multi-user
• Declarative
• Supplied Productivity Apps
• Supplied Sample Apps

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• SQL Commands
• SQL Scripts
• Object Browser
• Load Data
• Sample Data
• Publish RESTful web
services
• Manage your
database objects and
create Apps from one
tool
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Oracle APEX – SQL Workshop

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• Create Apps
• Develop Existing Apps
• Export App to file
• Import App from file
• View Metrics
Dashboard
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Oracle APEX – Application Builder

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• Simpler and modernized wizards for
creating pages.
• Allows creation of more advanced pages
such as Dashboards, Master-Detail, etc.
• Supports adding common frameworks or
"Features" when creating an application
such as access control, activity reporting,
theme selection, and more
• Customize user interface options such as
Theme Style, application icon and page
icons
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Oracle APEX - Low Code Application Builder

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Oracle APEX - Interactive Reports Component
• SQL Driven
• Powerful end user
reporting
• Filters
• Control Breaks
• Pivots
• Charting
• Selective Column
Display
• Download
• Automated Email

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Oracle APEX - Interactive Grid Component
• Modern, rich & interactive multi-row editing component
• Declarative support
for Cascading LOVs
and Dynamic Actions
• Upgrade utility for
Tabular Forms
• Master Detail / Detail

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Oracle APEX – Charting Component

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Oracle APEX - List-based Navigation Menus
• Alternative to using traditional tabs
• Available as top navigation menu and side menu
• Implemented as standard APEX lists
• Supports multi-level hierarchical menu structures
• Provides accessible pull-down menus

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Oracle APEX – Calendars from SQL

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Oracle APEX - Dynamic Actions
• Declaratively define rich
client-side interactivity
without writing JavaScript or
AJAX
• Perform partial page refresh
• Hide and show components
• Push session state to the
server
• Compute values

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Oracle APEX - Modal Dialogs
• Readily switch between
normal, modal, and non-modal
page mode
• A modal dialog is a stand-alone
page, not a region on a page
• Any page be created as a
dialog page
• Supports all the functionality
of a regular page, including
computations, validations,
processes, and branches

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Oracle APEX - Plug-Ins
Extend applications with custom
components such as items and regions

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• Executing dynamic SQL or PL/SQL on
remote databases using ORDS and REST
• Relies on the ORDS "REST Enabled SQL" feature (ORDS 17.3 or later)
• Requires ORDS instance having a connection pool configured for
target database.
• Oracle APEX passes SQL query to ORDS over REST
• Self-describing JSON response
• Response contains a JSON object with:
• Result set meta data (column names, data types)
• The result data
• Information about pagination
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Oracle APEX - REST Enabled SQL Support

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2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017
1.5 HTML DB
1.5 - First Release
1.6 – Themes
Hosted free service
apex.oracle.com
3.0 Flash Charts
PDF Printing
Access Migration
Tabular Forms
4.0 Websheets
Dynamic Actions
Plug-Ins
Team Development
2.0 SQL Workshop
2.1 - Oracle XE
2.2 - Dictionary Views
5.0 Page Designer (PD)
Universal Theme
Modal Dialogs
Data Upload
Error Handling
ROWID
4.1
2009
Oracle Forms to APEX
Conversion
3.2
Mobile with JQuery
HTML 5
Packaged Apps
4.2
2008
Interactive Reports (IR)
3.1
Interactive Data Grid (IG)
JET Charts
Simplified Wizards
Live Template Options
Improved Universal Theme
Font APEX
Improved Packaged Apps
5.1
18.1
Create App Wizard
REST & Remote SQL
Oracle JET upgrade
Improved IG, IR, PD
New REST Workshop
Schema Service
Exadata
Express
Cloud Service
2018
Oracle APEX
History

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Oracle APEX = RAD (Rapid Application Development)
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• REST
• Declaratively build REST Data Access APIs from APEX
• Facilitates Integration and Micro Services
• Easily Consumed by every language
• APEX
• Low Code Application Development
• IT Professionals, and citizen developers
• LOB Point Solutions, SaaS Extensions
• Differentiated, Low Code, Strong Community
• Database
• SQL popularity continues to grow
• SQL continues to deliver highest productivity
• SQL is easy to learn yet amazingly powerful Full Stack Solution for data driven business apps