My company is hosting a seminar June 28th. On that seminar we will put some Oracle technologies side by side, and compare them. Read the (Dutch) website for more info.
One of the technologies we will have a presentation about, is Oracle Application Express, or APEX. In the old days known as HTMLDB, and AskTom as a great example of the technology. You can recognize APEX sites by the “f?p=” in the URL.
This week we had a trial-run and I watched the APEX presentation. The presentation is very clear about what APEX is and how to use it. That alone should warm you up. But my colleague also demonstrates APEX live, and that is something you must see for yourselves. I had heard of HTMLDB/APEX, I already viewed some screenies and some casts, but as you all know: screenies don’t say anything about the amount of time to get there. And casts, well, they can be shortened or could be skipping tedious parts. Seeing the APEX application modified live in just a couple of minutes was a matter of “seeing is believing”. And boy, am I a believer know.
So if you have some guru-skills (not that you really need them) in SQL and/or PL/SQL and don’t want to learn something like Java, or PHP to create webapplications, than you really should try APEX. All you need is a browser, and a database to install the runtime-packages in. Simple.
If you are from the Netherlands, then by all means: come to our seminar. It’s free. We have a discussion forum with the presenters and the audience at the end. And of course we will have some drinks before we send you home. Hope to see your there.
If you can’t make it, or you’re not living in our area, please do yourself a favor and learn about APEX on Oracle’s website.
The only problem with APEX is the speed of adoption has been relatively low (here in the UK). I’m an independent developer and fortunately am surviving because are low numbers of projects is coupled with a low numbers of good developers. I’m always available for work though… pwinfield@primary-path.com
I hope the conference is successful.
Phil
Hi Phil,
Agreed. I think that with APEX version 2 and now 3 the degree of adoption will increase. Version 3 has some very nice features over 2. And we (our company) like to think that spreading the word will help clients overcome their fear of using this new technology.
Your address is noted. If we need someone in the UK (we do work their too) I won’t hesitate to contact you.