1. APEXposed!2013 Update:
Sneak preview on next release of
Oracle APEX
Chandra Movva

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

7. APEXposed!
• International conference
• Oracle APEX specialized
• Multiple times in year across the world
• 2 full days of packed sessions

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

11. What’s (might be) New?
Interactive Reports

12. What’s (might be) New?
Multiple Reports per Page
Freeze Columns
Makeover with Modal Dialogs

13. What’s (might be) New?
Page Region Enhancements

14. Page Region Enhancements
• New region – Multi Edit Row
- Master - Detail – Detail Pages

15. What’s (might be) New?
Modal Dialogs
Stacked Dialogs

16. PDF Printing
• APEX Listener 2.0 FOP Support
- FOP libraries for PDF printing
• Declarative
• Formatting options with templates!
• Breaks
• Master/Detail report layouts

17. What’s (might be) New?
Builder Security

18. Builder Security
• Custom Authentication Scheme(s)
e.g. LDAP

19. What’s (might be) New?
Builder UI Enhancements

20. Builder UI Enhancements
• New Page Layout/View

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!

25. Q&A

26. chandra.movva@synerz.com
@SynerzTech
https://www.facebook.com/SynerzTech
http://www.synerz.com/apex
Thank You