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Oracle Application Express (Oracle APEX), is the low code web application development tool for

the Oracle Database. Application Express enables you to design, develop and deploy beautiful,
responsive, database-driven applications, either on-premises or in the cloud. Using only a web
browser and limited programming experience, you can rapidly develop and deploy professional
applications that are both fast and secure for any device, from desktop to mobile. Oracle
Application Express combines the qualities of a low code tool, productivity, ease of use, and
exibility with the qualities of an enterprise development tool, security, integrity, scalability,
availability and built for the web. See how you can take advantage of this fully-supported, no-
cost feature of the Oracle Database by signing up for an account at apex.oracle.com.

Common Use Cases

Using Application Express you can build a wide variety of applications from the most simplistic
form and report on a table, to very complex multi-lingual applications that interfaces with
numerous back end systems, such as the Oracle Store. To see a showcase of various Internet
applications built with Application Express go to builtwithapex.com.

 Over 150+ AJAX-enabled components

 Extensive data visualization components
 JSF 2 Support
 Complete JavaScript API
 Drag and Drop Framework

Simple 3 Tier Architecture

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 Simple architecture where page requests and submissions made from the browser are
tunnelled through the mid-tier to execute in the Oracle Database and returned as HTML
responses to the browser.

 No data manipulation or processing is performed in the mid-tier, instead the Oracle APEX
engine (inside the Oracle Database) accepts the page, and interacts with the data schemas in
the database.
 The mid-tier can be either the preferred Oracle REST Data Services (ORDS) running in a Java
Server {either Oracle Web-Logic Server (WLS), Oracle Glass sh, or Tomcat} or Oracle
Embedded PL/SQL Gateway (EPG) which is part of the Oracle DB, or Oracle HTTP Server
(OHS) with mod_plsql. It is common for OHS to be installed in front of ORDS to act as a proxy
and serve images.

Development / Deployment
Options
Application Express provides unrivalled exibility in where you develop your applications, and
where the applications are deployed.

Development

For stand-alone development install Application Express on your laptop, inside a VM, or in a
Docker container
For organization-wide development have IT install Application Express into an on-premise
Oracle Database
Utilize an Oracle Database Cloud Service to be up and running in minutes

Deployment

Export the application from development, producing a plain text SQL le

Import the application into any Oracle Database, on-premises or cloud, with Application Express
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Send your end users the URL to the application

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Strong Community

Oracle Application Express has an excellent, active, world-wide developer community. The broad
reach of the APEX community is regularly displayed at numerous Oracle and APEX only events.
Their is an incredible cammerarderie, even between developers from competing consulting
companies, making it easy for anyone and everyone to engage with the community.

 Oracle Application Express Community Central includes consulting and hosting companies,
applications, books, success stories, and quotes.
 apex.world is a site built by the community for the community, and includes a discussion
forum, latest news, jobs, and a twi er feed.
 OTN APEX Discussion Forum has a wealth of existing Q&A, with answers by experts from
around the world.

Fully Supported. Enterprise Ready. No Additional Cost.

If you have the Oracle Database, you already have Application Express. Since 2004, Application
Express has been a fully supported and no-cost feature of the Oracle Database. Using
Application Express as a platform, thousands of customers have created applications that range
from small opportunistic solutions to enterprise-wide mission critical systems.

 Fully supported by Oracle

 No cost feature of the Oracle Database
 Included with Oracle Database since 2004
 Runs wherever the Oracle Database runs
 Can exploit all features of Oracle Database
 Scales with the Oracle Database

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Capitalize upon your Oracle

Database Investment
Solutions

Application Express can easily be used by citizen developers, yet it is broad enough to be
exploited by experienced enterprise developers. This enables developers to build small
opportunistic solutions all the way up to complex enterprise-wide mission critical systems.

Scalability

The Oracle Application Express engine runs directly in the Oracle Database and exploits the
database's extraordinarily scalable and e cient architecture. You can also take full advantage of
improved performance with Exadata, Real Application Clusters (RAC), and the In-Memory
option.

Security

The Oracle Application Express framework provides numerous security features out-of-the-box.
Authenticate your users using LDAP, Oracle Single-signon, Oracle Database credentials, or HTTP
Header variable. Exploit database features like Virtual Private Database and Real Application
Security.

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