Oracle Certification Program ( OCP ) now available for Oracle Application Express

Now there is a certification exam available for Oracle Application Express. Called "Oracle Application Express Developer Certified Expert". Currently available as a beta exam, the price for the exam is US$ 50.

As per details on Oracle's website "As an Oracle Application Express Developer Certified Expert, you should have the skills necessary to develop and deploy your application from beginning to end. The skills that you will gain through your experience and preparing for the exam will also allow you to manage database objects using SQL Workshop, utilize and manage shared components, manage authentication, authorization, and session state within your application, as well as administer Application Express Workspaces."

Beta Exam code is 1Z1-450 and the certification that will be awarded is "Oracle Application Express Developer Certified Expert"

To view more details and to register for the exam please visit http://education.oracle.com/pls/web_prod-plq-dad/db_pages.getpage?page_id=41&p_org_id=&lang=&p_exam_id=1Z0_450

DBCON's live online training on "Developing Applications with Oracle Application Express" covers the entire curriculum of this certification program and provides an unmatched value for money to help you become a certified expert in Oracle APEX as a developer.

Oracle APEX Version 4.0 Early Adapter Release is available now !

Oracle has released the early adapter version of APEX 4.0. As per details on Oracle's website

• This Early Adopter is not production ready and some new features may contain bugs or incomplete functionality. 
• Websheets is not yet available in the Early Adopter. 
• Internet Explorer is not currently supported with the hosted APEX 4.0 Early Adopter. The preferred browser for this evaluation is Mozilla Firefox. Internet Explorer will be fully supported at a later date (before Production).
• Online Help has not yet been updated and does not include any new features. An application describing all the new features will be available shortly.

To try out the new version of APEX 4.0 request for a workspace at http://tryapexnow.com

Announcing the launch of Live Online Training in "Administering Oracle Application Express"

DBCON announces the launch of its new course "Administering Oracle Application Express". Starting right from understanding what is Oracle Application Express to installation, up gradation, configuration, monitoring and management - learn all the essential skills to manage Oracle Application Express Instance in the most effective and efficient way.

For this training, all participants will have their own dedicated linux server (accessible over Internet through secured shell like Putty) where they will practise to install, upgrade, configure, manage & administer Oracle Application Express Instance.

DBCON's Live Online Training - Probably the best and most convenient way to learn Oracle Application Express. Anyone from anywhere in the world can attend this live online training. All you need is a PC and Internet connection. Complete course details, batches and schedule available at http://www.dbcon.com/courses.html

First Oracle Application Express Workshop in Singapore

On Monday, 27th April 2009, Oracle Corporation Singapore organized the first ever Oracle Application Express workshop at its office in Singapore. DBCON assisted Oracle in organizing this workshop.

Despite the fact that Oracle Application Express is not yet popular in this part of the world, the response and the turnout in this workshop was very impressive. Out of a total of 49 people who signed up for the workshop, 29 participants turned up. And that too when the workshop was organized on a weekday (Monday) and after office hours (6:30 - 9:30 PM).

Pizzas, sandwiches, tea & coffee set the right environment to start the workshop after day's work at office.

Blair Layton from Oracle started with 45 minutes presentation on Oracle Application Express in which he introduced Oracle Application Express, discussed the architecture and covered some of the security aspects. Blair also demonstrated how to create an application in Oracle APEX directly from a spreadsheet - without writing even a single line of code.

This was followed by the two hands-on lab exercises from OBE (Oracle By Example) series so that participants could have a feel of creating applications in Oracle Application Express. In about an hour and a half, most of the participants had their first APEX application up and running. An impressive feat considering the fact that before the start of the workshop most of the participants had no idea about Oracle Application Express.

Also for the very first time, the lab environment that was given to the participants was setup on Amazon AWS cloud. Oracle Application Express with Amazon AWS cloud is a deadly combination as you can have your application up and running literally in just a couple of hours which includes setting up hardware, operating system, database & creating a fully functional application.

The workshop ended with a quiz round where participants were asked questions from the workshop and got a chance to win T-shirts.

Oracle Application Express - Easy to develop, easy to deploy, easy to manage.

With Oracle APEX focus on what needs to be done, not how it should be done !

How to find out what all database objects have been used in an APEX application

As your APEX application gets bigger and complex sometimes you may want to know what are the different database objects like tables, functions, procedures, sequences etc. that is being used by the application. You may want to have this information handy if you want to transfer your application from one environment to another (typically when you want to deploy application from test envrionment to production environment) or you may also want to have this information so that you can do a housekeeping of your database and remove all the unused objects.

"Database Object Dependencies" report in Oracle Application Express gives you exactly that information. Checkout in this less than 2 minutes video to see how you can extract this information.

(Don't forget to turn the volume up to listen to some nice music as you watch this)

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Step by step guide to create "Aria Employee Directory Lookup" application in Oracle APEX

Oracle provides some pre-created applications in Oracle Application Express known as packaged applications. Packaged Applications are fully functional applications that you can view, use and customize. These packaged applications can be downloaded from Oracle's web site

Even if you download and use packaged application, sometimes and especially for beginners it becomes a challenge to really understand how these packages applications have been developed and decipher each and every component of it. This step-by-step guide is an attempt to address that problem, where you will recreate each any every component of the application yourself and have full understanding of it.

One of such packaged applications is “Aria Employee Directory Lookup”. Aria is used globally within Oracle to look up phone numbers, email addresses and other information about employees. Each employee can update his or her preferred contact information and upload an image for the employee profile page. Using this guide you will be able to create Aria Employee Directory Lookup application from scratch.

Once you have learnt Oracle Application Express, the next step is to put it to use. Training is necessary for getting the fundamentals right but there can be many challenges when you actually get down to create an application. Having a step-by-step guide that will walk to you through the different steps of how to create an actual application will give you an added advantage. It’s like taking an expressway to gain experience to develop real life applications.

Please do not forget to send your comments, feedback and suggestions to contact@dbcon.com . Please specify “Aria Employee Directory Lookup” in your subject line.

To use this guide effectively you must have the basic understanding of Oracle Application Express. If you are an absolute beginner in Oracle APEX we will highly recommend you to look at our training program “Developing Applications with Oracle Application Express” before you dive into this guide.

Aria Employee Directory Lookup Application - Step-By-Step Guide to create application in Oracle APEX

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Get Supporting Files

Like any other application, Aria Employee Directory Lookup is also dependent on other supporting objects. These support objects include

• Database Objects likes Tables, Indexes, Packages, Procedures, Functions, Sequences etc.
  
• Sample data in the tables
  
• Image Files
  
• Javascript Files
  
• CSS Files
  

In order to get started with the development of this application, you need to prepare your environment first. As our focus is just on creating the Aria Employee Directory Lookup application in Oracle APEX, a script has been provided to which will create all of the above mentioned supporting objects in your APEX workspace.

Click here to get the supporting files for Aria Employee Directory Lookup Application

Creating an Oracle APEX application from spreadsheet

One of the beautiful features in Oracle Application Exress is the ability to create an application straight from the spreadsheet. If you are wondering what is so great about it, well the beauty is that you don't have to write even a single line of code to do that. It is amazingly smooth and seamless. Check out the following step-by-step presentation to see how to do that.

Creating an Oracle APEX Application from spreadsheet

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In less than 5 minutes you can have a fully functional application from a spreadsheet. Isn't that cool ?