2. Speaker Bio
• Founder and President, Synerz Technologies
Inc.
• 20+ years of exp. as IM & IT consultant
• Director, Toronto Oracle Users Group (TOUG)
• Thought Leader, Silicon Peel, Mississauga
3. About Synerz Tech.
• Founded in 2001
• Headquartered in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
• Oracle Partner since 2006
• Specialized in custom development of database,
enterprise web and mobile applications using
Oracle stack including Oracle APEX
• For more info. check out
http://www.synerz.com/apex
4. Disclaimer
The views and information provided in this
presentation is for information purpose only and
as such should not be relied upon in making any
purchasing decisions related to Oracle products
and/or services.
5. Agenda
• Introduction
• APEXposed!?
• APEXposed!2013 Content
• Current APEX Status/Release
• Upcoming Release(s) – What (might be) new
and when?
• Oracle 12c and Oracle APEX
• Q & A
6. Introduction
• What is Oracle APEX?
- Declarative
- Rapid Application Development (RAD) tool
- For Oracle DB and fully supported by Oracle
- Web and Mobile
- Desktop, Tablet and Smart Phone devices
- Browser based development
8. APEXposed!2013 Content
• Beginner to Advanced
• Topics range from
- APEX fundamentals
- Best practices
- Security – Authentication (Single Sign-On)
- Formatting
- Mobile
- Future direction, Expert panel Q & A etc.
9. Current Status/Release
• APEX 4.2
• Generally made available in Sep, 2012
• Released 4.2.1 and 4.2.2
• Standard component of Oracle 12c Rel. 1 – 4.2
• Just released patch set 4.2.3
• Min. Oracle release requirement 10g Rel. 2
10. Next Release?
• Oracle APEX 5.0
• Good news… Significant investment
• Main focus – Developer productivity
• Min. Oracle release requirement 11g Rel. 2
• Based on Feature Requests Voting
21. Builder UI Enhancements
• Auto Complete feature
- PL/SQL regions
- CTRL + SPACE?
- DB Objects, APEX API’s, Page Items and ???
- New Code Editor ? Possibly!
22. Oracle APEX and Oracle 12c
• APEX 4.2 IS STANDARD COMPONENT OF
Oracle 12c Multitenant Architecture
• 252 Pluggable DBs
• CDB includes APEX engine
• PDB includes APEX meta data tables to hold
and maintain app. definitions/declarative
data/local tables
• Each PDB must have web listener defined in
APEX instance admin.
23. When?
• FY2013 (Jun 2013 – May 2014)
• Early Adopter Release
• General Availability Release
24. Summary
• Significant Investment
• Developer productivity
• Min. DB version Oracle 11g Rel 1 (11.1.7.x)
with APEX 5.0
• Tentative release FY 2013
• Watch out for early adopter release
• Have fun!