Yesterday, there were a number of presentations on the new Oracle APEX 4.1 version.
The presentation by David Peake, APEX product manager from Oracle, highlighted the new features available in 4.1. Read the rest of this entry »
Today, I finished the spring session teaching Oracle APEX to 2 groups of students. The majority had prior experience with Oracle Forms with some having more than 7 years experience developing Forms application.
Most had a desire to explore APEX as a tool since they read a lot about it but were unsure whether they could transition smoothly to developing APEX web applications.
APEX EA 4.1 is out. Evaluation workspaces can be requested at tryapexnow.com.
Some of the notable improvements that can be seen right away are the APEX Builder Dashboards, which in this version show only the most important information. However, there are other improvements as well that can be seen once you login to APEX.
I have been following Oracle Apex since 2004 and while I was no big fan at the beginning, I am more and more inclined to say that there is a case for adopting this tool in a number of cases, especially in situations where budget and time are severe constraints. I will try to summarize my current experience with Oracle Apex.
Please bear in mind that I wrote this post as a way to explain to a friend whether it makes sense to switch to Oracle Apex or Oracle JDeveloper coming from an Oracle Forms perspective.
Good points
For those planning to be at the annual ORAGEC here in Montréal, there are a number of interesting sessions. Of those, I will be attending the following sessions: Read the rest of this entry »
In addition to the excellent forum over at oracle.com, for those interested in an Apex forum in french, there is an excellent one run by sie-solutions.com over at apexquebec.com.
While Working on setting up an authentication/authorization scheme for an Oracle Apex application, I came across an excellent link by Duncan Mein here and a step by step procedure by Afaq Ayub here. Read the rest of this entry »
This past tuesday Nov 23, 2010 we had Mr David Peake, APEX product manager, over here in Montreal giving us a presentation on the new features available in APEX 4.X.
Some of the features that were highlighted:
On my side, the main point that got me really interested in is getting websheets to do things similar to Lotus Notes as I explained in this old post.
The presentation was followed by a roundtable. Experts from sie-solutions, insum and bibliotheque nationale du quebec answered questions from the audience.
Overall, it was a nice event organized by Oragec.
For those in the Montreal area, I will be teaching Oracle APEX at college de Bois de Boulogne this coming winter 2011. It is a 90 hours course.
There is also a presentation on APEX on Tuesday Nov 23, 2010 by David Peake, APEX product manager. The presentation will be held at Bibliotheque Nationale. The event is organized by ORAGEC.
I have been doing a lot of java programming since 2008 and most projects started with UML modeling (analysis and design). I have used visual paradigm (community edition) for most UML diagrams and I am quite happy with this tool.
For those interested, there are a number of other open source UML tools that can perfectly do the job. Here is the link for a nice list of UML tools.