Oracle Application Express (formerly called HTML DB)

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Course Overview

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 Oracle 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 Administration. 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 and branching. 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
  • Oracle APEX Sample Applications

Duration

  • Three days

Tuition

  • $1,395

Course Outline

  • Introductions
  • Overview of Oracle APEX development environment
  • Working with the SQL Workshops
  • Creating your first application with the Application wizard
  • How the page rendering and processing works
  • How Oracle APEX handles the session
  • Building Web pages
    • Creating Reports
    • Creating Forms
  • Understanding Application Shared Components
  • Themes and Templates
  • Understanding Navigation
  • Regions; what are they and how do you use them
  • Manually creating buttons and items
  • Working with Substitution variables
  • Using Validations and Computations
  • Processes
    • A look at generated processes
    • Creating processes manually
  • Working with Graphs and Charts
  • Controlling Application security
  • Oracle APEX Administration
  • The use of JavaScript in Oracle APEX
  • Oracle APEX built in functions and the PL/SQL Web Toolkit