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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

How to debug or troubleshoot printing issues


My statement is, "Keep it as simple as possible." So when you face issues with testing the report server, start by taking Application Express out of scope.

One way to make sure that your print server is up, running, and configured properly is to set up a static HTML form that simulates what Application Express is doing internally, that is, posting some XML data along with an XSL-FO stylesheet to a print server via HTTP and receiving back a PDF document as the response. If this works properly, you can at least be sure that your print server is working.

Tip

Example

The example file, How To Debug APEX and PDF Printing Integration Issues: BI Publisher / Apache FOP (Doc ID 454701.1), can be downloaded from My Oracle Support:

  • Download the attached ZIP file (testpdf.html).

  • Open the testpdf.html file in a browser and enter one of the following URLs for your print server installation:

    http://servername.domain.com:9704/xmlpserver/convert (BI Publisher)

    http...