Apex-Overview 23.1

Oracle APEX
Overview
Data – The World’s Most Valuable Resource
“Information has replaced technology as the central and most critical
asset to be managed by organizations. As a result, business leaders
Data driven organizations are 23 times more must shift to using the value of information as basis for new planning
likely to acquire customers, 6x as likely to & funding models.”
retain those customers, and 19x as likely to be
profitable as a result. 3
- Doug Laney, Research Vice President, Gartner. 4
$430B Advantage to Data Driven

Organizations. 2
Uber is Worth 70X More Than Hertz –

Uber is 52% corporate transport market
share compared to rental cars total of
33% in Q4/16. 1
Source:
1. wolfstreet.com
2. IDC
3. McKinsey Global Institute
4. Gartner
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Managing Data in Spreadsheets Is Challenging
Data Validation – Manual and error prone 95% 38%
Data Integrity – Cannot guarantee accuracy of data in Error Prone Outdated / Data Silo
multi-user environment Manual Involvement
Data Security – Cell locking is ineffective

60% 33%
Data Sharing – Excel is sluggish and hard to share

Ineffective Data Redaction Too Slow and Too
Hard to Share

Demonstration

Introduction

What Is Oracle APEX?
A low-code development platform that

enables you to build scalable and secure
enterprise apps with world-class features that
can be deployed anywhere.

Oracle APEX
Database-centric web application development framework
Develop desktop and mobile Visualize and maintain Leverage SQL Skills and
web apps database data database capabilities

Distinguishing Characteristics
App Development IDE is a web App definitions are stored in the database Page generation is efficient with only one
browser. as meta data. request and one response.
Declarative – Data processing done

No client software needed No code generation in the Database

Rapidly develop, customize, and deliver
Pre-built controls for security, authentication, database interaction, validation, session management
and more…
Go from prototype to production in minutes
Develop Customize Deliver

User Interface for Any Device
Modern, intuitive, accessible UI for any device

fully customizable and responsive apps

No-Cost Feature of the Oracle Database
• No-cost fully supported feature

• Any number of apps, developers
& end-users
• Specialized Oracle Support Team
• Versions: 12c, 18c, 19c, 21c
• All DB editions: XE, SE2, EE
• Easy to install on-premises

• Included by default with all editions
of Oracle database
• Download latest release from
apex.oracle.com/otn

APEX Architecture
JDBC Data Schemas

HTTP(s)
APEX Engine
SQL & PL/SQL
Oracle REST Data Services Oracle Database

(Weblogic, Jetty, Tomcat) (Pluggable or Dedicated, 12c or Above)
No Application Logic Zero latency database data access

Converts HTTP to database API calls Dynamically driven by APEX metadata
Browser Mid Tier Database Tier

APEX Data Sources
External APIs –
Web Sources
[REST, SOAP]
Local Data Source

HTTP(s) JDBC [SQL, PL/SQL]
JDBC
Database Links
REST [SQL*NET]
Remote Enabled SQL
Databases [REST / HTTP(s)]
JDBC

Oracle Autonomous
Oracle Database
APEX
Included with New Always Free Service

Oracle Autonomous Database
• OLTP = Autonomous Transaction Processing (ATP)
• Analytics = Autonomous Data Warehouse (ADW)
• Document Store = Autonomous JSON Database (AJD)
• Fully Managed
• Includes Oracle APEX at no additional cost

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Oracle APEX Application Development Service
Easy to use, fully managed, enterprise-class service on Oracle Cloud
+ +
APEX Application
Oracle Autonomous Exadata Cloud
Development and Infrastructure
Database
Deployment
Best low-code environment on best cloud database on best

database infrastructure
Oracle APEX Application Development Service
Fully managed, mission-critical stack for $360/month
• $240 per OCPU and $120 per TB per month
Automatically scales up and down - supports dozens to millions of users
• Scales up to 128 OCPUs and 500TB storage
• Each OCPU supports hundreds of thousands of page views per hour
No extra fees per user, per developer, or per application
Try APEX Service on Oracle Cloud Free Tier

Single Database Instance / Multiple Workspaces
• Workspaces used to define application

definitions/schemas hold data
• Many-to-many relationship between Workspaces and

Schemas
• Instance Administrators manage the environment and

schema access
• Departments can request more space, and access to a

new schema
• For example, Oracle’s internal-only service

apex.oraclecorp.com has over 5,000 Workspaces,
covering every line of business in Oracle

Development / Deployment Options
Local On-Premise Cloud

• Install on stand-alone laptops using Oracle • Typically run by the IT Department • Deploy Internet applications
Express Edition (XE) or full database
version • IT generally both production operations • Leveraged for fast application
service, and a service provider development, user acceptance and training
• Simply upgrade APEX to the required
version • Departments responsible for application • Prototyping & Proof-of-Concept
development
• Can work completely disconnected • Consulting companies develop for
deployment on customer premise
Browser based application development framework enables efficient development & deployment
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Shoot someone a URL – Check this out – Application Development

Oracle APEX Community
• Over 500,00 developers worldwide

• Estimated from support requests, downloads,
conferences, discussion forum activity
• More than 100 active bloggers

odtug.com/apex
• apex.oracle.com/communityConsulting
companies, books, success stories, quotes,
commercial apps

apex.world
Community-authored site providing:
• Plug-ins
• Slack discussion channels
• Twitter feeds
• News
• Jobs
• Conferences
• Meetups

builtwithapex.com
• Showcases large diversity of types of

applications and different themes
• Launched October, 2016
• > 150 sites published, more being added

daily

Use Cases

Transform Your Spreadsheets to Web Apps in Minutes
Features
• Drag and Drop an XLS, CSV, XML, or JSON file

• Create table in Autonomous Database
• Upload data into new table
• Create App based on new table
Solutions
• Single source-of-truth
• Send out a URL not a file
• Secure, scalable, multi-user app
• Extend with Charts, Calendars, Validations, and more

Rapid Application Development
Build new business and productivity apps
Features
• Build apps in days / weeks not months / years

• Use powerful wizards to create fully featured apps
• Easily modify to meet changing requirements
• Rapidly iterate to production-ready app
• Low-code capabilities allow non-IT professionals to also
build or help build apps
Solutions
• Opportunistic
• Simplistic, tactical apps to meet immediate need
• Webify paper processes
• Generally developed by one or two people

Modernizing Oracle Forms
Features
• APEX is the natural evolution of Forms

• Both based on SQL and PL / SQL
• Re-use DB packages, procedures, functions
• Easily train Forms Developers into developing with APEX
Solutions
• Proof-of-concept using subset of Forms apps

• Organization-wide apps, rather than back-office
• External apps for customers / partners
• Mobile-first apps
• Net new requirements

Extending Enterprise Systems
Features
• Extend ERPs and other enterprise software

• Provide organization-specific dashboards
• Improved workflows
• Fill gaps
Solutions
• Meet non-standard requirements

• Optimize common business functions
• Enhance data capture
• Integrate disparate data sources
See: Extend E-Business Suite using APEX - Official white paper

Transform Your Spreadsheets to Web Apps in Minutes
Features
• Quickly build custom mission-critical apps

• Corporate data reporting and maintenance
• Merge separate data silos
• Build organization-wide self-reporting apps
Solutions
• Simple deployment
• Single installation runs any number of apps
• Scale to hundreds of thousands of users
• Leverages enterprise features of Oracle Autonomous

Product Components

Home Page
Comprehensive Development IDE, Web Application Development,

and SQL Database Development

App Builder
Integrated Development Environment (IDE) with Application Development Graphical "Page Designer"
Features tight SQL and PL/SQL integration

App Builder - Page Designer

App Builder - Page Designer
• Multiple trees to view the page components
• Visualization of the page within the Grid Layout, and associated Gallery, allowing you to drag and drop
components
• Update multiple attributes without leaving the page in the Property Editor
• Advanced Code Editor for defining SQL, HTML, CSS and text sections
• Highly configurable user interface:
• Customize and refine view of page specific to current focus

• Slideable panels
• Drag and drop tabs

App Builder – Code Editor
Available for maintaining SQL, PL/SQL, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, and large text sections
• Syntax Highlighting
• Undo / Redo
• Find/Replace
• Auto completion
• Code validation
• Used in Page Designer, Component View
• and SQL Workshop

App Builder - Universal Theme
• Default theme for Oracle APEX applications
• Uses responsive HTML5 templates
• Grid-layout for HTML forms
• Modern flat-look
• Ships with a variety of pre-built theme styles
• jQuery Mobile Apps can be transitioned to Universal Theme

Theme Styles and Theme Roller
• Theme Styles provide a variety of different color

schemes and styles for a single theme
• Defined as CSS file that is included in addition to the

theme’s base CSS file
• Universal Theme includes several pre-built styles
• Additional styles can be easily generated using the

built-in Theme Roller utility

Template Options
• Declarative CSS modifiers for HTML5 templates
• Enables developers to declaratively apply styles

like borders, padding, icons, colors, size, etc.
• Uses easy-to-understand, descriptive names
• Available for most template types:

• Page, Region, Report, Breadcrumb, List, Item, Button
• Significantly reduces the number of required templates

for a theme

SQL Workshop
Browser based maintenance of database objects and data

Designed to meet application developers’ needs, especially in hosted environments

SQL Workshop – Quick SQL
Rapidly design and prototype data models using a markdown-like shorthand syntax
that expands to standards-based Oracle SQL.

Team Development
Team Development has been reimagined as a new and more flexible way to work
with colleagues and keep track of tasks, features, bugs and feedback.

Gallery

Features

Create Application Wizard
• Simple, modern wizard for creating pages.
• Allows creation of numerous page types including

Dashboards, Master-Detail, etc.
• Supports adding common frameworks or "Features"

when creating an application such as access control,
activity reporting, theme selection, and more
• Customize user interface options such as Theme

Style, application icon and page icons

Create Page Wizard
• Simple, modern wizard for creating individual pages

in an existing app.
• Allows creation of more advanced pages such as

Dashboards, additional Master-Detail page types,
List View, mobile first reports, and more.
• Supports adding common frameworks or "Features"

to an existing application such as access control,
activity reporting, theme selection, and more

Interactive Reports
Powerful Reporting capabilities  End-user customizable

Faceted Search
• A powerful way to filter and

display your data.
• Faceted Search will make it

easier for your users to find the
data they want.

Smart Filters
• New search component that

allows users to quickly narrow
data down with filters
suggestions or search terms
• Features a powerful Search Bar

that provides built-in auto-
complete for your filters,
supports searching for multiple
terms, and provides easy
keyboard navigation.
• Filters are evaluated against your

data and displayed below the
search bar as chips

Cards
• Create cards as a native region type

and control the layout declaratively.
• Provides entry to more detailed

information and you can include a
number of actions declaratively.

Declarative Progressive Web Applications (PWA)
• Ability to install an APEX app as a Progressive

Web App (PWA)
• Adds PWA install-ability option to the Create App

wizard
• Provides installation instructions when needed,

tailored for any device and browser
• Serves a customizable offline page when users are

offline and can't request the network
• Improves page load rendering time with a new

browser cache architecture for static files (APEX
core files and APEX app files)

Maps
• The native Map component allows

you to add powerful, feature rich, and
interactive maps.
• Powered by Oracle eLocation Service

so it is ready to use, no API Key
required.
• Create maps with layers for points,

lines, polygons, 3D polygons, and
heat maps.

Interactive Grid
• Modern, rich & interactive multi-row

editing component
• Use of existing Item types
• Declarative support
for Cascading LOVs
and Dynamic Actions
• Upgrade utility for

Tabular Forms
• Master Detail / Detail

Interactive Grid
Master Detail Layout – N-levels wide or deep

Modal Dialogs
Readily switch between normal, modal, and non-modal page mode
• A modal dialog is a stand-alone page,

not a region on a page
• Any page be created as a dialog page
• Supports all the functionality of a

regular page, including computations,
validations, processes, and branches

Charting Engine

Charting Engine
Declarative support for Oracle JET Data Visualization Components
• Based on Oracle JET Data Visualization Components
• Oracle JET (JavaScript Extension Toolkit) is open source
• JavaScript-based solution, data being provided in JSON format
• Highly Customizable
• Using 'JavaScript code' to provide function to be called when chart is initialized
• Using Dynamic Actions to add interactive behavior
• Built-in Accessibility Support
• Built-in Responsive Design Support

Calendar
Different views, drag and drop capability

List-based Navigation Menus
• Available as top navigation menu and

side menu
• Implemented as standard APEX lists
• Supports multi-level hierarchical

menu structures
• Provides accessible pull-down menus
• Alternative to using traditional tabs

Dynamic Actions
Declaratively define rich client-side interactivity without writing JavaScript or AJAX

REST Enabled SQL Support
• Create and maintain References to REST Enabled

SQL Instances (Oracle REST Data Services) in
Shared Components: A name, Endpoint URL, and
Authentication information
• Use a REST Enabled SQL Service and therefore a

remote Oracle database as the Data Source for Oracle
APEX components like:
• Classic Reports, Interactive Reports

• Reflow Report, Toggle Columns Report
• Tree Region, JET Charts
• CSS Calendar
• PL/SQL Process

Consuming External REST APIs
• REST Data Sources are a declarative method to define

references to external REST APIs and generic JSON
data feeds.
• REST Data Sources store additional metadata about

how to parse response data and map it as a virtual table
with rows and columns.
• A module can contain one or many

operations which are the references to
a concrete external web service.
• Create and maintain REST Data Sources

in Shared Components.

Consuming External REST APIs
• Use as data sources for Oracle APEX components such as:

• Interactive Report, Classic Report
• JET Chart, CSS Calendar
• Tree Region, Reflow Report, Toggle Column Report
• Post Processing SQL modifies data before being processed by an Oracle APEX
component:
• Apply SQL functions, aggregations, join to local tables etc.
• Avoid unnecessary HTTP requests by using Caching

Plug-Ins
Extend applications with custom components such as items and regions
apex.world/ords/f?p=100:700

Summary

Oracle APEX
Summary
• Used by real customers for real applications: Used for both opportunistic and mission critical apps that
service tens of thousands of users.
• Well Established Product : First released in 2004
• Most powerful Low Code Application Development Platform: Allows developer to focus on solving the
business problem and delivering superior solutions, with less time and effort spent on mundane and repetitive
lower-level coding.
• Continually growing: Oracle install base is adopting Oracle APEX for increasing numbers of projects, and is
increasingly an approved corporate IT standard.

Oracle APEX
Summary
• Aligned with industry trends: Strong support for HTML5 development frameworks, Modern & responsive
CSS3 UI, integrated JavaScript libraries, Browser-based, self-service provisioning, flexible development and
deployment including cloud services.
• Consistent with Oracle developers skill set: SQL, PL/SQL, Oracle Database.
Proficiency in the Oracle database easily translates into an ability to develop web applications.

Learn More…
Primary site apex.oracle.com

APEX Shortcuts apex.oracle.com/shortcuts
APEX Community apex.oracle.com/community
Blogs blogs.oracle.com/apex
APEX on Autonomous apex.oracle.com/autonomous
Database Cloud Services cloud.oracle.com/database
Oracle APEX Education apex.oracle.com/education

To learn more,
visit apex.oracle.com

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Oracle APEX

- Doug Laney, Research Vice President, Gartner. 4

$430B Advantage to Data Driven

Uber is Worth 70X More Than Hertz –

4 Copyright © 2021, Oracle and/or its affiliates [Date]

Data Validation – Manual and error prone 95% 38%

Data Security – Cell locking is ineffective

Data Sharing – Excel is sluggish and hard to share

5 Copyright © 2021, Oracle and/or its affiliates [Date]

6 Copyright © 2021, Oracle and/or its affiliates [Date]

7 Copyright © 2021, Oracle and/or its affiliates [Date]

A low-code development platform that

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Declarative – Data processing done

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Go from prototype to production in minutes

Develop Customize Deliver

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Modern, intuitive, accessible UI for any device

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• No-cost fully supported feature

• Easy to install on-premises

13 Copyright © 2021, Oracle and/or its affiliates [Date]

JDBC Data Schemas

SQL & PL/SQL

Oracle REST Data Services Oracle Database

No Application Logic Zero latency database data access

Browser Mid Tier Database Tier

14 Copyright © 2021, Oracle and/or its affiliates [Date]

Local Data Source

15 Copyright © 2021, Oracle and/or its affiliates [Date]

Included with New Always Free Service

16 Copyright © 2021, Oracle and/or its affiliates [Date]

• OLTP = Autonomous Transaction Processing (ATP)

• Analytics = Autonomous Data Warehouse (ADW)

• Document Store = Autonomous JSON Database (AJD)

• Includes Oracle APEX at no additional cost

17 Copyright © 2021, Oracle and/or its affiliates [Date]

Best low-code environment on best cloud database on best

Fully managed, mission-critical stack for $360/month

• $240 per OCPU and $120 per TB per month

Automatically scales up and down - supports dozens to millions of users

• Scales up to 128 OCPUs and 500TB storage

• Each OCPU supports hundreds of thousands of page views per hour

No extra fees per user, per developer, or per application

Try APEX Service on Oracle Cloud Free Tier

20 Copyright © 2021, Oracle and/or its affiliates [Date]

• Workspaces used to define application

• Many-to-many relationship between Workspaces and

• Instance Administrators manage the environment and

• Departments can request more space, and access to a

• For example, Oracle’s internal-only service

21 Copyright © 2021, Oracle and/or its affiliates [Date]

Local On-Premise Cloud

22 Copyright © 2021, Oracle and/or its affiliates [Date]

• Over 500,00 developers worldwide

• More than 100 active bloggers

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