Personal & Misc

I’ve been working with APEX for the past 2 years on internal development, but as a company we’re only just starting to develop commercial applications.

Traditionally our development has been done using Oracle Forms or more recently using a multi-tiered JBOSS environment (which seems too complex and convoluted to be practical). In preparation for the new development projects using APEX I held a 2 day internal training course. This was extremely well received and everyone involved was incredibly positive and excited. No one on the course had used APEX before so we were starting from scratch, but by the end everyone had created a new application, had used substitution variables, the APEX APIs and PL/SQL to generate web pages using the HTP package.

Using Oracle Forms we are used to using a ‘bodge’ or having to ‘fudge’ code to get the results we wanted. [more]

I’m still trying to figure this one out and I suppose a bit of background will help. I work for a software house and the development department that I work in has two main products. One is Forms 10g sitting on an Oracle 10g database and the other uses the same database but has a front-end written using Java, eForms and Hibernate. There’s around about 100 designers, developers, testers and managers in this department and until about 2 years ago our internal processes were from the dark ages! We were requesting leave using a MS Word document and keeping track of schedules in a spreadsheet. We were developing fancy products for our customers, but internally we hadn’t progressed since the 90’s. Then someone mentioned Oracle Application Express, then called HTMLDB and I was asked to look at developing some internal applications. [more]