APEX
Low-Code and High-Control
Jorge Rimblas

Jorge Rimblas
Senior APEX Consultant

- Oracle DB since 1995
- APEX since it was HTMLDB in 2004
- Always involved in web technologies
- jrimblas in OTN Forums


- Contributor to
"Expert Oracle Application Express, 2nd Edition"
with "Themes & Templates" chapter

Age: 15 years!
Staff: 80+ employees
68 consultants/developers
2017: Deloitte’s Technology Fast 500 ™
APEX Solutions: 13 Years!
Largest APEX practice in North America
Oracle Center of Excellence





Objective
Oracle
Application Express
APEX

ā'pěks

Tool for
Web Development
No Cost Option of the Oracle Database
Oracle XE 11g
Oracle 12c EE
.
.
11g R1, 11g R2, 12c
XE, SE, SE2, EE
HTML DB 1.5
First Release 2004
APEX 2.0
Renamed in 2006
APEX 5.1.4
December 2017
Almost 14 years old!
Database Centric

Leverage SQL Skills and database capabilities
Database Centric

Desktop & Mobile Web apps
Database Centric

Visualize and maintain DB data
Database Centric

Desktop & Mobile Web apps

Visualize and maintain DB data

Leverage SQL Skills and database capabilities
App Development IDE is a web browser

No client software needed
App definitions are stored in the database as meta data

Declarative - No code generation
Page generation is efficient.
Only one request and one response.

Data processing done in the DB
Demo
Component Spectrum

Targeted Control


Targeted Control

Targeted Control

What's Next?
Code: INSUM for $100 off
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APEX
Low-Code and High-Control
Jorge Rimblas

Twitter: @rimblas

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