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John Edward Scott and Scott Spendolini
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Pro Oracle Application Express
Copyright © 2008 by John Edward Scott and Scott Spendolini
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Contents at a Glance
Foreword . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xv
About the Authors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .xvii
About the Technical Reviewer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xix
Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxi
Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxiii
CHAPTER 1 Development Best Practices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
CHAPTER 2 Migrating to APEX from Desktop Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
CHAPTER 3 Authentication and User Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
CHAPTER 4 Conditions and Authorization Schemes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
CHAPTER 5 Data Security . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153
CHAPTER 6 Navigation and Layout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203
CHAPTER 7 Reports and Charts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247
CHAPTER 8 Ajax and JavaScript . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301
CHAPTER 9 File Storage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331
CHAPTER 10 Reporting and Printing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363
CHAPTER 11 Themes and Templates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 401
CHAPTER 12 Localization Issues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 445
CHAPTER 13 LDAP and Single Sign-On . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 477
CHAPTER 14 Performance and Scalability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 553
CHAPTER 15 Production Issues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 593
CHAPTER 16 APEX Dictionary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 641
INDEX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 683
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Contents
Foreword . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xv
About the Authors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .xvii
About the Technical Reviewer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xix
Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxi
Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxiii
CHAPTER 1
Development Best Practices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
APEX Installation Decisions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Application Development Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Users and Administrators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Workspaces and Schemas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Application Deployment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Application Portability and Code Reuse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Performance Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Bind Variables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Report Pagination Style . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Error and Exception Handling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Packaged Code . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
CHAPTER 2
Migrating to APEX from Desktop Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Excel Migration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Creating a New Application Based on a Spreadsheet . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Running the New Application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Customizing the Application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Exporting Data to a Spreadsheet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Access Migration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Using the Access Export Option . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Using the ODBC Database Export Method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Using Oracle Migration Workbench . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Migrating the Application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
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