Understanding Oracle APEX 5 Application Development / Edition 2

by Edward Sciore

Overview

This new edition of Understanding Oracle APEX 5 Application Development shows APEX developers how to build practical, non-trivial web applications. The book introduces the world of APEX properties, explaining the functionality supported by each page component as well as the techniques developers use to achieve that functionality. The book is targeted at those who are new to APEX and just beginning to develop real projects for production deployment.

Reading the book and working the examples will leave you in a good position to build good-looking, highly-functional, web applications. Topics include: conditional formatting, user-customized reports, data entry forms, concurrency and lost updates, and updatable reports. Accompanying the book is a demo web application that illustrates each concept mentioned in the book. Specific attention is given in the book to the thought process involved in choosing and assembling APEX components and features to deliver a specific result. Understanding Oracle APEX 5 Application Development is the ideal book to take you from an understanding of the individual pieces of APEX to an understanding of how those pieces are assembled into polished applications.

• Teaches how to develop non-trivial APEX applications.
• Provides deep understanding of APEX functionality.
• Shows the techniques needed for customization.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781484209905
Publisher:	Apress
Publication date:	07/04/2015
Edition description:	2nd ed.
Pages:	348
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x (d)

About the Author

Edward Sciore is an Associate Professor in the Computer Science Department at Boston College.  He has been teaching college students for over 30 years. His research specialty is database systems, and he thoroughly enjoys teaching the wonders of database technology to captive students.

Table of Contents

1. The SQL Workshop

2. Applications and Pages

3. Regions

4. Navigation

5. Items and Buttons

6. Session State

7. Processes

8. Data Validation

9. Branches

10. Tabular Forms

11. Dynamic SQL

12. Security