1. Oracle APEX 4.2
New Features
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2. WELCOME
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3. About Enkitec
— Oracle Platinum Partner
— Established in 2004
— Headquartered in Dallas, TX
— Locations throughout the US & EMEA
— Specialties include
— Exadata Implementations
— Development Services
— PL/SQL / Java / APEX
— DBA/Data Warehouse/RAC
— Business Intelligence
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4. Enkitec & APEX
— Services
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— Consulting
— Education
— 2+ weeks of instructor led training curriculum
— Public & Private
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— eSERT Cloud
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5. Agenda
— Overview
— APEX 4.2 New Features
— Infrastructure
— User Interface
— Mobile
— HTML5
— Packaged Applications
— Enhancements
— Summary
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6. OVERVIEW
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7. What is Application Express?
— Oracle Application Express
— Commonly referred to as APEX
— Formerly called Oracle HTML DB
— Full-featured web development environment
based in and for the Oracle Database
— No IDE to download; 100% web-based
— Works on any platform that Oracle runs on
— Written in 100% PL/SQL & JavaScript
— Included as part of your Oracle Database license
at no additional cost
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8. What is APEX?
— Supported in all Oracle editions:
— XE, SE One, SE & EE
— Oracle Database 10g, 11g & 12c
— Exadata, RAC, ODA
— Lightweight yet Robust Infrastructure
— APEX Listener &
J2EE Server
— Oracle HTTP Server &
mod_plsql
— Embedded PL/SQL
Gateway
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9. What is APEX?
— APEX enables you to quickly and securely
develop and deploy web-based applications based
on data in the Oracle database
— Easily create forms, reports, charts & calendars
— Seamless integration with the database & PL/SQL
— Includes jQuery and jQuery UI JavaScript libraries
— Easy to integrate with other 3rd party plugins & utilities
— Built-in integration with Oracle SQL Developer
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10. APEX Release History
HTML DB 2.0 APEX 2.2 APEX 3.1 APEX 4.0 APEX 4.2
HTML DB 1.5 (2010)
(2004) (2005) (2006) (2008) (2012)
SQL Workshop Packaged Apps Interactive Reports DAs, Plugins, Team Mobile, HTML 5
Development
HTML DB 1.6 APEX 2.1 APEX 3.0 APEX 3.2 APEX 4.1
(2004) (2006) (2007) (2009) (2011)
Themes Oracle XE Flash Charts, PDF & Oracle Forms Data Upload, Error
Access Migration Conversion Handling
2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012
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11. Community
— Estimated 400,000 developers worldwide
— Over 120 consulting companies worldwide
— Over 75 bloggers
— 3rd most popular forum on OTN
— Web sites dedicated to plug-ins, themes, tools
— 64 sessions and > 300 APEX Developers at ODTUG
KScope 12
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12. Books
— Almost 20 published APEX technical books
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13. INFRASTRUCTURE
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14. Require Outbound HTTPS
— Require all outbound requests to be over HTTPS
— Applies to URL Regions & Web Services
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15. Instance-Wide Proxy
— Require all outbound HTTP(S) traffic use a single
instance-wide proxy
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16. Log Switch (Data Retention)
— Administrators can define intervals between log
switches for four logs:
— Access Log, Activity Log, Debug & External Click
— Maximum of 180 Days Retention possible
— Longer retention may impact performance negatively
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17. Resource Manager Consumer Group
— Workspaces can now be mapped to a Resource
Manager Consumer Group
— All database requests from any application within that
workspace must adhere to the policy of the associated
Resource Manager Group
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18. V$SESSION Changes
— Module:
— Parsing DB User/APEX:APP App ID:Page ID
— Client Info:
— Authenticated Username:Workspace ID
— Client ID:
— Authenticated Username:Session ID
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19. Partitioning of APEX Runtime Tables
— Support for partitioning the APEX runtime tables
to better improve performance
— Session data
— Activity logs
— Indexes
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20. Restricted Characters
— New Item Attribute
— Input validation which provides declarative
control over which characters can be entered into
session state
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21. APEX Listener 2.0
— File-based Configuration
— Command-line
— GUI Admin via SQL Developer
— Multiple Database Connection
Support
— ICAP Server Integration
— Incorporate virus scanning of files
— Enhanced FOP Support
— JavaScript-based validation function
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22. USER INTERFACE
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23. Themes & Templates
— Theme 25 is a Responsive Theme
— Automatically adjusts size & displayed components based
on size of viewing device
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24. New Attributes for JS & CSS
— Can be set for the Application or on individual
Pages
— Can also omit Legacy Javascript
— Support for inline CSS on a per-Page basis
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25. RESPONSIVE THEMES
D E M O N S T R A T I O N
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26. MOBILE
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27. Mobile: Application Builder
— Built-in declarative support for building mobile
applications
— If you know how to build desktop apps, you already know
how to build mobile apps!
— A single application can support both Desktop
and Mobile - or just one or the other
— Mobile interface is managed via jQuery Mobile
— Pre-integrated APEX themes & templates
— HTML5 based charts are compatible with mobile
browsers
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28. Mobile: Application Builder
— An APEX Application can be associated with one
or more User Interfaces
— Pages can be either Desktop or Mobile specific
— Pages can only be mapped to a single User Interface
— User Interfaces can only be mapped to one Theme
— Each User Interface can have device-specific Login and
Home URLs and support device auto-detection
— Page 0 replaced by Global Page(s)
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29. Mobile: Themes & Templates
— New Theme 50 supports the development of
mobile applications
— Declarative support to specify JavaScript & CSS files
— Default Mobile page & popup transition types
— Support Content Delivery Networks for hosting
of core jQuery files
— New #PAGE_STATIC_ID# substitution string
added to page templates
— New mobile calendar templates
— Includes mobile-friendly List view
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30. Mobile: Themes & Templates
— Easy to Create your own Mobile themes
— Check out jQuery ThemeRoller for more details
— http://jquerymobile.com/themeroller
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31. MOBILE APPLICATIONS
D E M O N S T R A T I O N
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32. HTML5
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33. HTML5 Charts
— APEX 4.2 includes AnyChart 6 - which has
support for HTML5 Charts
— HTML5 Charts are mobile-friendly
— Do not require any plugins
— Two supported rendering
options:
— Flash
— HTML5
— New Conditional Display of
Chart Series
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34. HTML 5 CHARTS
D E M O N S T R A T I O N
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35. HTML5 Items
— New HTML5 Item Types:
— Slider
— Date Picker
— Yes/No (Toggle Switch)
— New HTML 5 attributes:
— Placeholder attribute
— EMAIL, TEL and URL for Textfield
— “Required” attribute
— Display Orientation attribute
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36. PACKAGED APPLICATIONS
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37. Packaged Applications
— Packaged Applications return in APEX 4.2
— Suite of Productivity applications that can be quickly
installed in any workspace
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38. Packaged Applications
Productivity Apps Sample Code
— Project Tracker — Calendars
— Checklist Manager — Charts
— Customer Tracker — Data Loading
— Group Calendar — Dynamic Actions
— Product Features — Interactive Reports
— Bug Tracker — Master-Detail Forms
— Asset Manager — Tabular Forms
— Document Library — Trees
— Survey Builder — Sample Database Application
— Sample Websheets
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39. OTHER ENHANCEMENTS
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40. List View Region Type
— jQuery List view using data-role="listview"
attribute
— Support for Server-Side AJAX search
— AJAX based pagination
— Support of the "Refresh"
dynamic action
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41. Dynamic Action Enhancements
— Expose jQuery Mobile events via Dynamic Actions
— Swipe, touch, tap/hold, orientation
— Provide ‘Custom’ event support
— Declarative support for buttons to be the
‘Affected Element’
— AJAX based Dynamic Actions to work
asynchronously
— Chart ‘Refresh’ Dynamic Actions support
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42. Plugins Enhancements
— Increased Number of Custom Attributes to 25
— New APIs in apex_plugin_util to better
support custom plug-in attributes of type "Region
Column Name "
— New Standard Region Type Plug-in Settings:
— Fetched Rows
— No Data Found Message
— Add support for media queries and IE conditions
to apex_css and apex_javascript APIs
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43. Data Upload Enhancements
— Allow up to 3 columns in Look-up Definition
— Expand transformation rules to include PL/SQL
— Provide aliases for column names
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44. RESTful Web Services*
— Interaction with data sources through the use of
Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs) *
— Standard method of accessing data in the Oracle Cloud
— Ability to create services which implement any
SQL statement or PL/SQL procedure
— Data returned in JSON or CSV format, or
additionally through PL/SQL
*Requires APEX Listener 2.0
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45. Debugging
— APEX_DEBUG_MESSAGES is now APEX_DEBUG
— Can still use previous name via synonym
— New logging methods available
— MESSAGE - logs a formatted debug message (general version)
— ERROR - logs message of level c_log_level_error (1)
— WARN - logs message of level c_log_level_warn (2)
— INFO - logs message of level c_log_level_info (4)
— ENTER - logs messages of level c_log_level_app_enter (5)
— TRACE - logs message of level c_log_level_app_trace (6)
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46. Debugging
— APEX_DEBUG.LOG_DBMS_OUTPUT
— Writes the contents of the DBMS_OUTPUT buffer to the
debug log
— Aids in capturing messages from legacy applications
— New options at the URL level
— May now use ‘LEVEL1’ through ‘LEVEL9’ in place of YES/
NO to enable debugging at a specific level
— Default is LEVEL4
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47. Debugging
— New Path Info column shows debugging phase
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48. Other New Features in APEX 4.2
— Enhanced Application Builder User Interface
— Grid Layout
— Named Branches
— Read-only attribute for Pages and Regions
— Interactive Report and Websheet enhancements
— Instance Administration improvements
— New CKEditor, jQuery and AnyGantt charts
versions
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49. Other New Features in APEX 4.2
— Item limit per page raised to 200
— SQL Workshop Date Format
— Publish Translations from command-line
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50. SUMMARY
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51. Summary
— APEX 4.2 continues to expand the scope an power
of APEX
— Easiest mobile/multi-device development platform
— Continues to adapt to leading edge technologies
— jQuery Mobile
— HTML5
— Modernized UI keeps it on par with industry user
interface trends
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52. APEX 5.0 SOD as of 28-NOV-12
— Modal Dialog
— Provide the ability to declaratively define modal dialogs.
— Drag and Drop Layout Editor
— Reintroduce the drag and drop layout editor which is compatible with laying out items
within a grid layout.
— HTML5 Capabilities
— Improve native capabilities for handling HTML5 constructs.
— PDF Printing
— Improve the printing capabilities utilizing the APEX Listener FOP Support
— Web Services Support
— In combination with the APEX Listener further extend the Web Services integration
capabilities.
— Tablet User Interface
— Enhanced themes and templates to enable developers to declarative create
applications and/or pages for tablet devices.
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/developer-tools/apex/application-express/apex-sod-087560.html
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53. APEX 5.0 SOD
— Packaged Applications
— Improved framework and enhancements to the packaged applications.
— New Multi-Row Edit Region Type
— Define a new region type with a modern UI for updating multiple rows of data
and allow multiple regions on one page.
— Master / Detail / Detail
— Provide a wizard interface to define declarative master/detail/detail regions.
— Multiple Interactive Reports
— Allow any number of Interactive Reports to be defined on a single page.
— Application Builder Security
— Allow different authentication schemes to be used to control developer
access to the Application Builder.
— Numerous functional improvements
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/developer-tools/apex/application-express/apex-sod-087560.html
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54. Feature Request
— Create and vote on new features for future
releases of Oracle APEX
http://apex.oracle.com/pls/apex/f?p=55447:1
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55. http://www.enkitec.com
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