Technical Papers

• Extending Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.1 and above using Oracle Application Express Revision 3.03 - April 2019

  When upgrading to Oracle E-Business Suite R12 many customers have had issues with customizations they performed in prior releases that were implemented in an unsupported manner. Use this white paper to learn how to extend Oracle E-Business Suite R12 in a fully certified manner that makes adopting future patches or upgrades very easy. There is also an associated presentation with the same name.

  Also review Integrating Oracle E-Business Suite 11g and R12 with Oracle Application Express [PDF] by Rod West, Cabot Consulting

• Understanding the Oracle APEX Application Development Lifecycle Version 3 - October 2022

  The development lifecycle is the process of periodically selecting a set of features and bugs that will improve your app, dividing the work among teammates, and testing the result before releasing the app to end users. This technical paper explains different aspects of the APEX application development lifecycle and highlights their use in popular development lifecycle solutions like GitLab, GitHub, and Jenkins, with pointers to additional targeted solutions like Jira for issue tracking and Oracle OCI Dev Ops for build automation on Oracle Cloud.

Presentations

• Oracle APEX Overview [PDF] Overview presentation used to introduce Oracle APEX.
• Oracle APEX 22.2 New Features [PDF] Presentation covering the new features in Oracle APEX 22.2.

The powerpoints below allow you to build your own presentation, pulling just the slides you need. The Project Tasks spreadsheet is useful for demonstrating creation of an application from a spreadsheet together with Interactive Report functionality.

• Application Express - Forms Modernization Presentation on modernizing Oracle Forms to Application Express.
• Application Express Architecture & Administration Presentation on architecture, instance administration, managing environments / deployments, and tuning / performance
• Extending Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12 using Oracle Application Express Presentation covering how to extend Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12, covering recommended architecture, including development and deployment considerations.

  This deck is associated with the white paper of the same name.

• Using Oracle Application Express to Build Highly Accessible Web Applications Presentation on accessibility and how to build accessible applications with Application Express.

Support

Oracle APEX is a fully supported no-cost option of the Oracle Database. Therefore, your Oracle Database maintenance agreement also covers support for Oracle APEX. Oracle's Lifetime Support policies maximize your investment protection and provide peace of mind knowing that we'll be there to support you.

The information below is provided in the Lifetime Support Policy: Oracle Technology Products: