Pro Oracle Application Express 4 is your key to mastering one of the
most innovative products to come out of Oracle in years. Application
Express, termed "APEX" for short, is fast becoming one of the easiest
and most widely-used of tools for creating enterprise-level applications
that run against an Oracle database. APEX is easy enough for power users
to create ad-hoc applications atop something more reliable than a
spreadsheet. Yet APEX is powerful and extensible enough to enable
fully-scalable, enterprise-level applications that are accessed by
thousands of users.
Authors Tim Fox, John Scott, and Scott Spendolini take you
to the professional level in developing for Application Express. They
show how to handle user authentication in enterprise environments and
how to extend APEX by writing components based upon Oracle's new plug-in
architecture. You'll learn to deal with localization issues such as time
zones and translations, and to customize the look and feel of an APEX
website to blend in with your corporate branding strategy. The authors
also cover web service development, performance and scalability, and the
production issues that you encounter in enterprise-level deployments.
Many years of experience in solving the "hard problems" are coalesced in
this book to help you, the reader, take advantage of all that APEX has
to offer.
- Focuses on high-end, enterprise-level development
- Covers new features such as plug-ins and Websheets
- Introduces the new interface released with APEX 4.0
