Expert Oracle Application Express [electronic resource] /
Scott, John Edward.author.
Gault, Doug.author.
Mattamal, Raj.author.
Nielsen, Anton.author.
DSouza, Martin.author.
Gielis, Dimitri.author.
Hartman, Roel.author.
Mignault, Francis.author.
Aust, Dietmar.author.
Hichwa, Michael.author.
Kubicek, Denes.author.
McGhan, Dan.author.
Kennedy, Sharon.author.
Expert Oracle Application Express brings you groundbreaking insights into developing with Oracle’s enterprise-level, rapid-development tool from some of the best practitioners in the field today. Oracle Application Express (APEX) is an entirely web-based development framework that is built into every edition of Oracle Database. The framework rests upon Oracle’s powerful PL/SQL language, enabling power users and developers to rapidly develop applications that easily scale to hundreds, even thousands of concurrent users.   The 13 authors of Expert Oracle Application Express build their careers around APEX. They know what it takes to make the product sing—developing secure applications that can be deployed globally to users inside and outside a large enterprise. The authors come together in this book to share some of their deepest and most powerful insights into solving the difficult problems surrounding scalability, globalization, configuration and lifecycle management, and more. You’ll learn about debugging and performance, deep secrets to customizing your application user interface, how to secure applications from intrusion, and about deploying globally in multiple languages. Expert Oracle Application Express is truly a book that will move you and your skillset a big step towards the apex of Application Express development. Presents best-practices and development insights from leading experts in the field Addresses globalization, scalability, security, and other concerns of enterprise-level development Shows how to customize APEX for your own application needs.
Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents at a Glance; Table of Contents; Foreword; About the Authors; About the Technical Reviewers; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1 OHS, EPG, and APEX Listener Compared; Why Should I Care About This Chapter?; Web Server Basics; The Oracle HTTP Server (OHS); Installing the OHS; Configuring the OHS; Digging into HTTPD.CONF; Configuring Virtual Hosts; Prefork or Multi-Processing Module?; Web Server Compression; Expiry Headers; Embedded PL/SQL Gateway; Compression and Expiry Headers with the EPG; Configuring SHARED_SERVERS; Configuring EPG Parameters and DADS
Debugging Issues with the EPGConfiguring Virtual Hosts with the EPG; The APEX Listener; Stand-Alone Installation; Installing via Glassfish or Web Logic Server; Compression with the APEX Listener; Interesting APEX Listener Features; Conclusion; Chapter 2 Oracle APEX 4.0 Charts Inside Out; HTML Charts; Using the HTML Charts Wizard; The Result; Debugging and Performance; Behind the Scenes; Inline HTML Charts in Report; Flash Charts; Background; Creating a Flash Chart; The Result; Understanding the Chart Region; Understanding the Chart Attributes; Adding Multiple Series and Combined Charts
Different Flash Chart TypesBehind the Scenes; Debug and Performance; Upgrading Oracle APEX 3.x Flash and SVG Charts; Screen Reader Mode and Charts; Extending Flash Charts; Customizing Charts by Using Custom XML; Customizing Charts by Using Custom XML, Dynamic Actions, and JavaScript; Creating Charts Manually; Drill-Down Charts, Dashboards, and Interactivity; Simple Dashboard with Submit; Simple Dashboard with JavaScript; Complex Dashboard with Actions; Most Common Issues; Search for a Specific Feature; Invalid #HOST# with Reverse Proxy or HTTPS; Flash Security Error; Charts in the Future
ResourcesConclusion; Chapter 3 Tabular Forms; Changes in APEX 4.0; Constraints; Purpose of Tabular Forms; Tabular Forms Are Not Spreadsheets; New Features in APEX 4; New Item Types; Single Checkbox; jQuery Date Picker; Radio Group; Popup Key LOV; Declarative Validations; Validations Created by Tabular Form Wizard; Highlighting Validation Errors; Other Features; Lost Update Protection; Client-Side Add Row Functionality; Reduced Number of Processes; Future Features We'd Like to See; Custom Coding in Tabular Forms; Processing the Correct Rows; Data Integrity; Checksum; Validations
Manual Tabular FormsTabular Forms and Collections; Creating a Collection; Using Instead of Trigger; Writing Packaged Update Procedures; Updating a Collection via an On-Demand Process; Interesting Techniques; Simple Autocomplete; Autocomplete Returning Key Value; Clone Rows; Summary; Chapter 4 Team Development; Milestones; The Basics; Extending Milestone Functionality; Features; The Basics; Extending the Features Functionality; To Do's; The Basics; Extending the To Do Functionality; Bugs; Feedback; Feedback Process; Enable Feedback; Exporting Feedback to Development
Importing Feedback into Development
Includes index.
Expert Oracle Application Express brings you groundbreaking insights into developing with Oracle’s enterprise-level, rapid-development tool from some of the best practitioners in the field today. Oracle Application Express (APEX) is an entirely web-based development framework that is built into every edition of Oracle Database. The framework rests upon Oracle’s powerful PL/SQL language, enabling power users and developers to rapidly develop applications that easily scale to hundreds, even thousands of concurrent users.   The 13 authors of Expert Oracle Application Express build their careers around APEX. They know what it takes to make the product sing—developing secure applications that can be deployed globally to users inside and outside a large enterprise. The authors come together in this book to share some of their deepest and most powerful insights into solving the difficult problems surrounding scalability, globalization, configuration and lifecycle management, and more. You’ll learn about debugging and performance, deep secrets to customizing your application user interface, how to secure applications from intrusion, and about deploying globally in multiple languages. Expert Oracle Application Express is truly a book that will move you and your skillset a big step towards the apex of Application Express development. Presents best-practices and development insights from leading experts in the field Addresses globalization, scalability, security, and other concerns of enterprise-level development Shows how to customize APEX for your own application needs.
Oracle (Computer file)
Database management.
Software engineering.
Database Management.
Software Engineering/Programming and Operating Systems.