A lot of companies use Microsoft Sharepoint as portal for their intranet. For many people it’s the first place to go to when they start their day. To do their job they make also use of other applications, some build in Oracle Application Express (APEX). This session will show the different options you have to integrate both worlds of Sharepoint and APEX. The integration can be both ways; - in Sharepoint you get data or screens from APEX - and in APEX you want to use data maintained and coming from Sharepoint.

1. Dimitri Gielis
MS Sharepoint
& Oracle APEX
www.apexRnD.be
dgielis.blogspot.com
@dgielis
dgielis@apexRnD.be

2. About me

4. http://dgielis.blogspot.com @dgielis

5. My company - APEX R&D

6. Agenda
❖ Why integrate MS Sharepoint and Oracle APEX?
❖ Architecture
❖ Oracle APEX (data, screens) in MS Sharepoint
❖ MS Sharepoint (data, screens) in Oracle APEX
❖ Conslusion

7. Why integrate MS Sharepoint and
Oracle APEX?

8. About MS Sharepoint
“Organizations use SharePoint to create websites. You can
use it as a secure place to store, organize, share, and access
information from almost any device. All you need is a web
browser.”!
Source: Microsoft website

10. Sharepoint Site

11. About Oracle APEX
“Oracle Application Express (Oracle APEX) is Oracle's
primary tool for developing Web applications with SQL
and PL/SQL. Using only a web browser, you can develop
and deploy professional Web-based applications for
desktops and mobile devices.”!
Source: Oracle Technet

12. About Oracle APEX

13. Why integrate MS Sharepoint and Oracle APEX?
❖ Where is your knowledge?
❖ Use the power of both…
❖ Sharepoint as your first stop
❖ See immediate tasks and context of the broader picture
(data coming from everywhere, screens from APEX)
❖ APEX to create your applications
❖ Even use data from Sharepoint

14. Architecture

15. Architecture
IIS!
Boncode
Tomcat!
ORDS
Microsoft !
Domain !
Controller
Active!
Directory
Oracle DB!
APEX
Browser
HTTP Header variable: !
login-user
Sharepoint

16. Oracle APEX data
in MS Sharepoint

17. Oracle APEX data in MS Sharepoint
❖ Connect directly to the Oracle database
❖ Sharepoint Designer 2013
❖ App with Visual Studio
❖ Microsoft Business Connectivity Services (BCS)
❖ Oracle Data Provider for .NET
❖ 3rd party connector (e.g. Layer2)

18. Direct connection to Oracle DB
An example of an Oracle connection string:!
Data Source=myDatabase;User Id=username;!
Password=password;Integrated Security=no;!

19. Oracle APEX data in MS Sharepoint
❖ Use of REST web services
❖ Oracle REST Data Services (ORDS)

20. REST access

21. Sharepoint List filled with data

22. Oracle APEX screen
in MS Sharepoint

23. Oracle APEX screen in MS Sharepoint

28. MS Sharepoint data
in Oracle APEX

29. MS Sharepoint data in Oracle APEX
❖ Connect to SQL Server database directly
❖ Great for one-off migration
!
❖ REST API
!
❖ (JavaScript API)

30. Direct database connection

31. REST API
http://msdn.microsoft.com/

32. apex_web_service.make_rest_request

33. Parse XML

34. MS Sharepoint screen
in Oracle APEX

35. MS Sharepoint screen in Oracle APEX
❖ Useful?
!
❖ Part of screen?
!
❖ HTTP vs HTTPS

36. MS Sharepoint screen in Oracle APEX
MS Sharepoint site APEX page

37. APEX: URL Region

39. HTTP vs HTTPS

40. HTTPS: Configure Oracle Wallet
$ orapki wallet create -wallet /u01/app/oracle/admin/DB11G/wallet -pwd WalletPasswd123 -auto_login
$ orapki wallet add -wallet /u01/app/oracle/admin/DB11G/wallet -trusted_cert -cert "/host/
BaltimoreCyberTrustRoot.crt" -pwd WalletPasswd123!

41. APEX: PL/SQL Region before URL

42. Live Demo

43. Conclusion
❖ Why integrate MS Sharepoint and Oracle APEX?
❖ Architecture
❖ Oracle APEX (data, screens) in MS Sharepoint
❖ MS Sharepoint (data, screens) in Oracle APEX

44. Q&A www.apexRnD.be
dgielis.blogspot.com
@dgielis
dgielis@apexRnD.be

45. Consulting, Development, Training
❖ Looking for consulting, training and development in Oracle
Application Express (APEX)?
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