oracle application express€¦ · title: jkallman_apex5_doag_20140326 author: joel kallman created...

1 Copyright © 2014, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.

Oracle Application Express DOAG Regionaltreffen NRW March 26, 2014 Joel R. Kallman, Director, Software Development Oracle Application Express


The following is intended to outline Oracle’s general product direction. It is intended for information purposes only, and may not be incorporated into any contract. It is not a commitment to deliver any material, code, or functionality, and should not be relied upon in making purchasing decisions. The development, release, and timing of any features or functionality described for Oracle’s products remains at the sole discretion of Oracle.


Brief Introduction

Joel R. Kallman

•  Director of Software Development, Database Server Technologies Division

•  Responsible for all product management and software development of Oracle Application Express

•  17 year Oracle employee

•  Actively developing Oracle Application Express since its creation in 1999


Internal Applications


Packaged Applications


Oracle Application Express 5.0

• Developer Productivity •  Functionality

•  Ease of Use

•  Security

•  Modern


Page Editor / Page Designer / Property Editor



But how do we know if the new Page Editor is truly more productive?


Modal Dialogs


Navigation Lists

Much greater flexibility than utilizing Tabs

• Navigation based on “standard” list (in Shared Components)

• Can utilize either static or dynamic list

• Can have multi-level hierarchy


Mobile Interface

• Reflow • Column Toggle

•  Panels

•  jQuery Mobile 1.4

•  Lighter–weight HTML and utilizing CSS images

•  Easier to update Theme Roller CSS into APEX Builder


Calendar

Completely new Calendar

•  Based upon jQuery plugin FullCalendar

•  Ability to define Duration (Start and End Date)

• CSS Styling

•  Include Supplemental Information

• Define View / Edit Link independently of Create Link

•  Full SQL control for ‘Drag and Drop’ operations


Interactive Reports

•  Allow multiple reports on a single page

•  Pivot View

• Replace ‘action’ regions with modal dialogs

•  and more …


File Handling

Dramatic improvements with the way files are uploaded, managed, exported, and downloaded

•  Ability to utilize Relative URL file references across file directory structures

•  Ability to upload and download zip files, which preserves the directory structures

•  File storage for Themes (store in the DB)


Universal Theme

• One Generic Theme

•  Easily styled via CSS

•  Template options apply to templates, result in CSS styling at runtime


Application Builder Security

•  Allow different authentication schemes to be used to control developer access to the Application Builder. •  Pre-built schemes

•  Improve security

•  Reduce administration



Improved framework and enhancements to the packaged applications

• Old sample applications were removed from OTN

• Completely revamped for APEX 4.2

•  Examples of best-practices {Plug-ins; Flot charts}

•  Improved user interface design

•  * Framework for third-party applications


Improved User Interface


Oracle REST Data Services •  The future of APEX is

with Oracle REST Data Services

•  Enabling technology for the Oracle Database


What about the “missing” features?

•  If expected functionality is not available in APEX 5.0 Early Adopter 2 then very unlikely to be in APEX 5.0 Production

•  APEX 5.0 is a big investment

•  Strive for a short cycle between APEX 5.0 and APEX 5.1 releases


•  10-year anniversary of Oracle Application Express

•  APEX 5.0 is an investment…for another 10 years

Oracle Application Express 5.0

oracle application express€¦ · title: jkallman_apex5_doag_20140326 author: joel kallman created...

Documents