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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

Summary


This chapter gave you an overview of the possibilities for printing in Application Express.

There are different choices for implementing reports printing/PDF printing:

  • Apache FOP by using OC4J

  • BI Publisher

  • Or alternatives such as Oracle Reports, Jasper Reports, and Plugins

We started with the two most commonly used architectures in Application Express printing—Apache FOP and BI Publisher. Then we saw how to install and configure both Apache FOP and BI Publisher. After the installation, we discussed how to investigate printing problems.

We also dealt with layout of your report and discussed how to include charts and images.

Finally, we discussed some alternatives that can be used for PDF printing, and also plugins.