Oracle Application Express 4.0 is a rapid web application development tool that works with the Oracle database. Using features like Plug-ins and Dynamic Actions, APEX helps you build applications with the latest techniques in AJAX and JavaScript.
The Oracle Application Express 4.0 Cookbook shows you recipes to develop and deploy reliable, modern web applications using only a web browser and limited programming experience.
With recipes covering many different topics, it will show you how to use the many features of APEX 4.0.
You will learn how to create simple form and report pages and how to enhance the look of your applications by using stylesheets. You will see how you can integrate things such as Tag Clouds, Google Maps, web services, and much more in your applications. Using Plug-ins, Dynamic Actions, BI Publisher, Translations, and Websheets, you will be able to enhance your applications to a new level in APEX.
This book will show you how to be agile in the development of your web applications by using Team Development, debugging, and third-party tools.
After reading this book, you will be able to create feature-rich web applications in Application Express 4.0 with ease and confidence.
Chapter 1, Creating a basic APEX application, describes the basic steps to create an APEX application. We will learn to make an intranet application where employees can get information.
Chapter 2, Themes and Templates, presents some recipes which will make your application look better using themes and templates by creating your own theme, including images in it and so on.
Chapter 3, Extending APEX, shows us how to we will extend our application with some nice features like visual effects, a tag cloud, and a Google map.
Chapter 4, Creating Websheet Applications, teaches us how to create a websheet application, create a page in the application, add a navigation page to the websheet, and allow multiple users to access the websheet.
Chapter 5, APEX Plug-ins, describes the four types of plug-ins: Item type, Region type, Dynamic action, and Process type plug-ins.
Chapter 6, Creating Multilingual APEX Applications, shows us how we can fully translate an application using built-in functionality to translate applications, without having to rebuild the application completely and adding something of ourselves to easily switch between languages.
Chapter 7, APEX APIs, shows us how to use APIs as they offer a lot of flexibility and speed in developing web applications.
Chapter 8, Using Webservices, teaches us how to use webservices in APEX.
Chapter 9, Publishing From APEX, shows you how to export reports and get the output in some kind of digital format and how to interact with BI Publisher.
Chapter 10, APEX Environment, contains recipes that will show how to set up and use a development environment, how to use version control and how to deploy Application Express on a web container with the APEX Listener.
Chapter 11, APEX Administration, shows you how to create a workspace, how to create users on the workspace and how to manage the workspaces.
Chapter 12, Team Development, we will see how we can take advantage of the features in Team Development in our project. Each recipe will show how a part of Team Development can be put to use in a specific part of the project cycle.