Oracle APEX
What is Oracle APEX?
Oracle Application Express (APEX) is a low-code development platform that enables you to build feature-rich, scalable, and secure enterprise applications that can be deployed anywhere. Using APEX, developers can rapidly develop and deploy engaging applications that solve real business problems and deliver immediate value. You don’t need expertise across a wide range of technologies to deliver sophisticated solutions. Focus on solving the problem and let APEX handle the rest.
Fast, Secure, and Simplified Application Development with Oracle APEX
Oracle APEX is designed to enable developers to build modern, user-friendly, and responsive applications without requiring deep specialization. Its mission is to make it easy to create applications that deliver powerful functionality, high performance, and an exceptional user experience. By eliminating the complexity of enterprise application development, APEX helps you deliver projects faster, more efficiently, and at a lower cost.
Reducing Complexity
Oracle APEX removes unnecessary complexity from every layer of the application development and deployment process. This results in a faster, simpler, and more cost-effective development experience.
Simple Development
Its browser-based, intuitive interface makes it easy to learn and use. With its powerful components, applications with extensive functionality can be developed using minimal coding. Most users become productive within just a few days.
Powerful and Proven
It is trusted across a wide range of use cases, from simple table-based applications to mission-critical enterprise solutions used by tens of thousands of users. Its robust architecture has become the foundation for thousands of applications worldwide.
Secure
Oracle APEX produces applications that meet high security standards right out of the box. Its continuously updated security framework helps protect your applications against modern threats.
Advantages of Oracle APEX
- DBAs familiar with PL/SQL can leverage their existing skill set to develop web applications.
- Creating mockups is easy using pre-built themes.
- Easy deployment (the end user simply opens a URL to access an APEX application).
- Scalable (can be deployed on laptops, standalone servers, or Oracle RAC installations).
- Server-side processing and validations
- Basic support for collaborative development
- Hosting free demo applications provided by Oracle
- APEX applications can run on the free Oracle Express Edition (XE) database.
- Individual components of an application can be retrieved or defined using SQL, making customized reports easy.
- It easily adheres to the SQA development/test/production model (without exposing database passwords).
- It helps focus on the database model supporting a solution (instead of coding in Java, .NET, or PHP — only JavaScript is needed).
- It easily supports a standardized theme across application sets (and allows that theme to be changed).
- It easily integrates with different data sources such as a local database, a remote Oracle database, or any web service.
- Semi-technical end users can create their own web pages and reports.
ADVANTAGES OF ORACLE APEX
APEX – Low Code
Although APEX has existed in one form or another since 2004, it has recently been categorized under a new class of application development platforms called Low Code. These Low Code environments can trace their origins back to 4GL programming languages and rapid application development (RAD) tools. Since APEX was initially marketed as a RAD tool, this evolution makes sense. APEX enables web applications to be easily created without requiring code. In cases where requirements are more complex, APEX allows Low Code objects to be extended through a declarative framework. This framework enables developers to define custom logic and business rules and build an advanced user interface. Developers achieve this using SQL, PL/SQL, HTML, JavaScript, or CSS, as well as APEX plugins. Therefore, APEX allows developers to move from no-code to low-code and further into more advanced coding when needed.
Oracle APEX is preferred by people from many different roles
For example: students, business users, architects, CIOs…
APEX for Business Users
Oracle APEX includes powerful self-service reporting features. You can easily add custom filters, sort, aggregate, summarize, and visualize your data, and even create reports that are sent to you regularly via email.
Oracle APEX includes a set of free and supported productivity applications — no knowledge of anything is required, even Oracle APEX itself! It is as simple as installing an app on your smartphone.
APEX for Students
With Oracle APEX, you can easily build web applications without any knowledge of HTML, CSS, or JavaScript. Oracle APEX is tightly integrated with the Oracle Database and handles all operations related to data processing within a database. If you have a basic understanding of SQL, you can quickly build beautiful, responsive web applications. Since it fully supports SQL, the industry standard for data processing and aggregation, Oracle APEX is excellent for data analysis. If you are familiar with HTML, CSS, or JavaScript, you can also leverage your skills in Oracle APEX to create highly customized user interfaces.
Oracle APEX is taught at many universities and colleges around the world, and demand for employees with Oracle APEX experience is at an all-time high and continues to grow. You can also get started immediately for free.