APEXposed!2013 Update: Sneak preview on next release of

Oracle APEX

Chandra Movva

Speaker Bio

• Founder and President, Synerz Technologies Inc.

• 20+ years of exp. as IM & IT consultant

• Director, Toronto Oracle Users Group (TOUG)

• Thought Leader, Silicon Peel, Mississauga

About Synerz Tech.

• Founded in 2001

• Headquartered in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada

• Oracle Partner since 2006

• Specialized in custom development of database, enterprise web and mobile applications using Oracle stack including Oracle APEX

• For more info. check out http://www.synerz.com/apex

Disclaimer

The views and information provided in this presentation is for information purpose only and as such should not be relied upon in making any purchasing decisions related to Oracle products

and/or services.

Agenda

• Introduction

• APEXposed!?

• APEXposed!2013 Content

• Current APEX Status/Release

• Upcoming Release(s) – What (might be) new and when?

• Oracle 12c and Oracle APEX

• Q & A

Introduction

• What is Oracle APEX?

- Declarative

- Rapid Application Development (RAD) tool

- For Oracle DB and fully supported by Oracle

- Web and Mobile

- Desktop, Tablet and Smart Phone devices

- Browser based development

APEXposed!

• International conference

• Oracle APEX specialized

• Multiple times in year across the world

• 2 full days of packed sessions

APEXposed!2013 Content

• Beginner to Advanced

• Topics range from

- APEX fundamentals

- Best practices

- Security – Authentication (Single Sign-On)

- Formatting

- Mobile

- Future direction, Expert panel Q & A etc.

Current Status/Release

• APEX 4.2 • Generally made available in Sep, 2012 • Released 4.2.1 and 4.2.2 • Standard component of Oracle 12c Rel. 1 – 4.2 • Just released patch set 4.2.3 • Min. Oracle release requirement 10g Rel. 2

Next Release?

• Oracle APEX 5.0

• Good news… Significant investment

• Main focus – Developer productivity

• Min. Oracle release requirement 11g Rel. 2

• Based on Feature Requests Voting

What’s (might be) New?

Interactive Reports

What’s (might be) New?

Multiple Reports per Page

Freeze Columns

Makeover with Modal Dialogs

What’s (might be) New?

Page Region Enhancements

Page Region Enhancements

• New region – Multi Edit Row

- Master - Detail – Detail Pages

What’s (might be) New?

Modal Dialogs Stacked Dialogs

PDF Printing

• APEX Listener 2.0 FOP Support - FOP libraries for PDF printing • Declarative • Formatting options with templates! • Breaks • Master/Detail report layouts

What’s (might be) New?

Builder Security

Builder Security

• Custom Authentication Scheme(s)

e.g. LDAP

What’s (might be) New?

Builder UI Enhancements

Builder UI Enhancements

• New Page Layout/View

Builder UI Enhancements

• Auto Complete feature

- PL/SQL regions

- CTRL + SPACE?

- DB Objects, APEX API’s, Page Items and ???

- New Code Editor ? Possibly!

Oracle APEX and Oracle 12c

• APEX 4.2 IS STANDARD COMPONENT OF Oracle 12c Multitenant Architecture

• 252 Pluggable DBs

• CDB includes APEX engine

• PDB includes APEX meta data tables to hold and maintain app. definitions/declarative data/local tables

• Each PDB must have web listener defined in APEX instance admin.

When?

• FY2013 (Jun 2013 – May 2014)

• Early Adopter Release

• General Availability Release

Summary

• Significant Investment

• Developer productivity

• Min. DB version Oracle 11g Rel 1 (11.1.7.x) with APEX 5.0

• Tentative release FY 2013

• Watch out for early adopter release

• Have fun!

Q&A

chandra.movva@synerz.com @SynerzTech https://www.facebook.com/SynerzTech http://www.synerz.com/apex

Thank You