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Oracle APEX Best Practices

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Oracle APEX Best Practices

Overview of this book

Have you ever wanted to create real-world database applications? In this book you're not only getting APEX best practices, but will also take into account the total environment of an APEX application and benefit from it."Oracle APEX Best Practices" will guide you through the development of real-world applications. It will give you a broader view of APEX. The various aspects include setting up APEX environment, testing and debugging, security, and getting the best out of SQL and PL/SQL.In six distinct chapters you will learn about different features of Oracle APEX as well as SQL and PL/SQL.Do you maximize the capabilities of Oracle APEX? Do you use all the power that SQL and PL/SQL have to offer? Do you want to learn how to build a secure, fully functional application? Then this is the book you'll need. "Oracle APEX: Best Practices" is where practical development begins!
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
Oracle APEX Best Practices
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Installation and configuration of the Apache FOP report server


Apache FOP enables you to print report regions and report queries by using either the built-in templates (provided with a standard XSL-FO processing engine) or other formats created by you. The output formats include PDF and XML. This setting does not support Rich Text Format (RTF).

Application Express calls apex_fop.jsp through the UTL_HTTP RDBMS package.

The following diagram shows the printing architecture against the Apache FOP report server:

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The Apache FOP is only supported against the OC4J web server, due to the XML parser being used. Currently, it is not supported with the GlassFish and/or WebLogic Servers. Support for WebLogic Server and GlassFish with the Apache FOP solution is planned, especially when running the APEX Listener on one of those servers. However, it is not yet decided when this will be implemented (official statement from Oracle Support Services).

The Apache FOP installation is included in the...