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Oracle APEX Best Practices

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Oracle APEX Best Practices

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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!

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Oracle APEX Best Practices
Nov, 2012 | 298 pages
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Table of Contents (14 chapters)
Oracle APEX Best Practices
Oracle APEX Best Practices
Credits
Credits
About the Authors
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Preface
Free Chapter
1
Prepare and Build
Prepare and Build
History and background
Installing APEX
Choosing a web server
Creating a second administrator
Database
Creating a workspace
User Interface Defaults
Page Zero
Structure of multiple applications
Creating applications
Summary
2
Leveraging the Database
Leveraging the Database
Instrumentation
Efficient lookup tables
Analytic functions
Aggregate functions
Searching the contents of documents
Summary
3
Printing
Printing
Printing architecture
Installation and configuration of the Apache FOP report server
How to debug or troubleshoot printing issues
How to check if network services are enabled
Creating a report with BI Publisher
How to create a report that can deliver output in different formats
How to add a chart to a report
How to add dynamic images to a report
Print API
How to bypass the 32K limit
Alternatives to use for PDF printing
Plugins
Summary
4
Security
Security
Securing Oracle Application Express for administrators
Virtual Private Database
Security considerations when installing Oracle Application Express
Security considerations for the developer
Summary
5
Debugging and Troubleshooting
Debugging and Troubleshooting
Debugging an APEX page
APEX_APPLICATION.G_DEBUG
APEX and Oracle SQL Developer
Remote debugging
JavaScript console wrapper
Web development tools
Summary
6
Deploy and Maintain
Deploy and Maintain
Package your application, or not?
Deploying the database packages
Deploying the APEX application
Being active and proactive
Summary
Database Cloud Service and APEX 4.2
Database Cloud Service and APEX 4.2
Oracle Public Cloud
Summary
Index
Index

Printing architecture

PDF printing in Oracle Application Express requires an externally defined print or report server. An external report server can be the Apache FOP reports server from Apache, the reports server from Business Intelligence Publisher, or server from a third-party such as Jasper reports. Different flavors of an external report server are possible. When the user clicks on a print link in Application Express, the Application Express engine generates the corresponding report data in XML format and a report template in XSL-FO or RTF format.

All of this architectural complexity is transparent to the end users and developers. Here, transparent means that the end user only sees the print link and the end result, and not the architecture behind. So end users just click on the print links, and developers just declaratively set regions to support PDF printing.

Your report server can be Oracle BI Publisher, Oracle Application Server Containers for J2EE (OC4J) with Apache FOP, or another...

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