Application Express, or APEX, is one of the most innovative products to come out of Oracle in years. APEX is an application development framework for developing database–backed applications. It’s easy enough to get started in that power users can quit storing data in random spreadsheets and instead centralize their data in the powerful Oracle database, all without developer help. Developers arent left out, however. Those who choose to can go deep and leverage the full power and flexibility of Oracles database engine.
Getting started with APEX is easy. Learning how to take full advantage of APEX is the problem. It was the problem, that is, until this book came along. In Pro Oracle Application Express, authors John Scott and Scott Spendolini open the “hood” of APEX and expose the full power behind its easy–to–use GUI interface. They show you what you need to know to produce powerful, professionally polished applications, things such as user-authentication models, approaches to layout and navigation, how to integrate Ajax, how to deal with localization issues such as time zones and translations, how to customize the look and feel of an APEX web site, and much, much more.
The authors are well–qualified to write on APEX. John Scott runs ShellPrompt, a hosting service that handles many large-scale APEX applications, some of which he is paid to develop. John is a hard–core APEX developer. His coauthor, Scott Spendolini, is one of the original creators of APEX. Both John and Scott now base their fulltime careers on developing APEX applications. Pro Oracle APEX is your opportunity to learn APEX from the very best.
About the Author
John Edward Scott has been using Oracle since version 7 (around 1993) and has used pretty much every release since then. He has had the good fortune to work on a wide range of projects for a varied group of clients. He was lucky enough to start working with Oracle Application Express when it was first publicly released, and has worked with it nearly every day since (and loves it).
Scott Spendolini is President and Founder of Sumner Technologies, LLC (http://sumnertech.com), a small consulting firm which specializes in Oracle Application Express training and consulting services. Spendolini has assisted a number of clients from various verticals with their Application Express development and training needs. He has presented at a number of conferences, including Oracle OpenWorld, ODTUG, and IOUG and is a regular contributor to the APEX Forums on OTN.
Previously to founding Sumner Technologies, LLC, he worked for Oracle Corporation for almost 10 years, the last three of which he was a Senior Product Manager for Oracle Application Express. Prior to working with Oracle APEX, Spendolini assisted customers with the Oracle eBusiness Suite and its related technologies. Spendolini holds a dual bachelors degree from Syracuse University in Management Information Systems and Telecommunications Management.