Oracle Application Express (ApEx) provides students with a solid understanding of Oracle's latest rapid application development environment. The presentation style is a series of concise lessons, with each lesson preparing students to apply the knowledge gained in a challenging exercise based on a real-world situation. Topics begin with an overview of the APEX development environment, its genesis, capabilities and applications. Instruction continues with an overview of each of the environments major areas; Application Builder, SQL Workshop and Utilities. The course will then continue with an in depth exploration of the development environment including data importing, application wizards, element wizards, session management, page rendering and processing, application shared components, application elements, computations, validations processes, branching and security implementation. The course also looks at application themes and templates and how they control the look and feel of the application independent of the application logic. All of these will be brought together through a series of exercises that result in a working application.
Course Goals
To build an understanding of the Oracle APEX development environment and its capabilities
To provide students with the skills necessary to take full advantage of the Oracle APEX rapid application develop environment to produce real world applications.
To obtain hands-on experience through exercises in an instructor-led environment, promoting interactive learning.
Prerequisites
This course assumes a good working knowledge of PL/SQL
A very basic understanding of Hyper Text Markup Language (HTML) is useful
Who Should Attend?
Any one wishing to gain an understanding of the capabilities of the Oracle APEX rapid application development environment.
Application developers who want be able to start developing real world application quickly utilizing Oracles latest technology.
Course Materials
Oracle APEX Course Notes
Oracle APEX Handbook
Duration
Three (3) days
Course Outline
Introductions
Overview of Oracle APEX development environment
Working with the SQL Workshops
Creating your first application with the Application wizard