Doug Gault & Dimitri Gielis 
Expert Oracle Application Express 

Expert Oracle Application Express, 2nd Edition is newly updated for APEX 5.0 and brings deep insight from some of the best APEX practitioners in the field today. You’ll learn about important features in APEX 5.0, and how those can be applied to make your development work easier and with greater impact on your business. Oracle Application Express (APEX) is an entirely web-based development framework that is built into every edition of Oracle Database. The framework rests upon Oracle’s powerful PL/SQL language, enabling power users and developers to rapidly develop applications that easily scale to hundreds, even thousands of concurrent users. APEX has seen meteoric growth and is becoming the tool of choice for ad-hoc application development in the enterprise.

The many authors of Expert Oracle Application Express, 2nd Edition build their careers around APEX. They know what it takes to make the product sing—developing secure applications that can be deployed globally to users inside and outside a large enterprise. The authors come together in this book to share some of their deepest and most powerful insights into solving the difficult problems surrounding globalization, configuration and lifecycle management, and more. New in this edition for APEX 5.0 is coverage of Oracle REST Data Services, map integration, j Query with APEX, and the new Page Designer.

You’ll learn about debugging and performance, deep secrets to customizing your application u

ser interface, how to secure applications from intrusion, and about deploying globally in multiple languages.
Expert Oracle Application Express, 2nd Edition is truly a book that will move you and your skillset a big step towards the apex of Application Express development.

• Contains all-new content on Oracle REST Data Services, j Query in APEX, and map integration


• Addresses globalization and other concerns of enterprise-level development


• Shows how to customize APEX for your own application needs

Table of Content

1. APEX Builder, Denes Kubicek

2. Oracle REST Data Services, John Scott

3. Oracle APEX 5.0 Charts Inside Out, Dimitri Gielis

4. Tabular Forms, Denes Kubicek

5. Team Development, Roel Hartman

6. Globalization, Francis Mignault

7. Debugging, Doug Gault

8. Dynamic Actions, Martin Giffy D’Souza

9. Lifecycle Management, Nick Buytaert

10. Plug-Ins, Dan Mc Ghan

11. j Query with APEX, Tom Petrus

12. Map Integration, Christoph Ruepprich

13. Themes and Templates, Jorge Rimblas

14. Report Printing, Karen Cannell

About the author

Doug Gault is a Consulting member of Technical Staff at Oracle Corporation and has been working with Oracle Database since 1988, starting with version 5.1B, SQL*Forms 2.0, and RPT/RPF. He has focused his career on Oracle’s development technologies, spending the majority of that time dedicated to web-based technologies including the OWA Web Toolkit, PL/SQL Server Pages, Web DB, Oracle Portal and more recently HTML-DB and APEX.





Doug’s many years of Oracle Database experience have taken him all over the world to participate in some truly ground-breaking projects. Doug has presented and participated in roundtable discussions at a number of conferences, including Oracle Open World, UKOUG, and ODTUG’s APEXposed & Kaleidoscope conferences. He holds an Associate’s Degree in Computer Science and an honorary Master’s Degree from The School of Hard Knocks, believing there is no replacement for hard-earned experience. 





Doug can be found on Twitter as @dgault_apex and on his blog at douggault.blogspot.com.