Overview of APEX

Purpose

This tutorial covers how to build an application, load data and run the application using Oracle Application Express.


Time to Complete

Approximately 60 minutes


Introduction

Oracle Application Express (Oracle APEX) is a rapid web application development tool for the Oracle database. Using only a web browser and limited programming experience, you can develop and deploy professional applications that are both fast and secure. Oracle APEX is a fully supported, no cost option of the Oracle database. 
In this tutorial, you use Oracle APEX Release 4.1.1 to build an application that contains a variety of pages.


Prerequisites

Before starting this tutorial, you should:

• Have access to an Oracle Database 11g database that has the sample schema installed.
• Have installed Application Express Release 4.1.1 into your Oracle Database 11g database.
• Created a workspace called HR that is based off the HR schema with the admin username of HR and a password of oracle.
• Performed the Testing and Debugging Procedures using SQL Developer tutorial.
• Downloaded and unzipped the files.zip into your working directory.