Preface

Oracle Database Application Express User's Guide describes how to use the Oracle Application Express development environment to build and deploy database-centric Web applications. Oracle Application Express turns a single Oracle database into a shared service by enabling multiple workgroups to build and access applications as if they were running in separate databases.

This preface contains these topics:

Topic Overview
Audience
Documentation Accessibility
Related Documents
Conventions

Topic Overview

This document contains the following chapters:

Title	Description
What's New in Oracle Application Express	Describes new features available in this release of Oracle Application Express.
Quick Start	Offers a quick introduction to using the Oracle Application Express.
Running a Demonstration Application	Describes how to run and modify the demonstration applications that install with Application Builder.
Application Builder Concepts	Provides basic conceptual information about Application Builder. Use Application Builder to assemble an HTML interface (or application) on top of database objects such as tables and procedures.
Using Application Builder	Provides important background information about using Application Builder to build dynamically rendered applications.
Building an Application	Describes how to use Application Builder to build an application and application components.
Adding Navigation	Describes how to implement navigation in your application using different types of navigation controls, including navigation bar entries, tabs, breadcrumbs, lists, and trees.
Controlling Page Layout and User Interface	Describes different approaches to customizing an application's user interface and page layout including customizing regions, editing item attributes, customizing templates, and incorporating cascading style sheets and images.
Understanding Application Administration	Explains the tasks and reports available to workspace administrators, including managing application services, session state, user preferences, log files, application models, Application Express end users, application development activity, and explains how to send email from an application.
Managing User Interface Defaults	Describes how to use user interface defaults to assign default user interface properties to a table, column, or view.
Debugging an Application	Describes approaches to debugging your Application Builder application, including viewing Debug Mode, enabling SQL tracing, viewing page reports, and how to manually remove a control or a component to isolate a problem.
Managing Application Security	Describes how to provide security for an Application Builder application by utilizing cross-site scripting protection, session state protection, authentication, and authorization.
Deploying an Application	Explains how to package an application built within Application Builder.
Advanced Programming Techniques	Provides information about advanced programming techniques including establishing database links, using collections, running background SQL, utilizing Web services, and managing user preferences.
Managing Application Globalization	Explains how to translate an application built-in Application Builder.
Oracle Application Express APIs	Describes the APIs available in Oracle Application Express.
Managing Database Objects with Object Browser	Describes how to use Object Browser to browse, create, and edit objects in an Oracle Application Express database.
Building Queries with Query Builder	Explains how to use Query Builder's graphical user interface to search and filter database objects, select objects and columns, create relationships between objects, view formatted query results, and save queries.
Using SQL Scripts	Provides information on how to use SQL Scripts to create, edit, view, run, and delete script files.
Using SQL Commands	Explains on how to use SQL Commands to create, edit, view, run, and delete SQL commands.
Using Application Express Utilities	Describes how to use Application Express Utilities to load and unload data from the database, generate DDL, view object reports, and restore dropped database objects.
Migrating Applications	Describes how to migrate a Microsoft Access application and generate an Oracle Application Express application.
Managing an Oracle Application Express Hosted Service	Describes how to administer and managing an entire Oracle Application Express instance using the Oracle Application Express Administration Services application.

Audience

Oracle Database Application Express User's Guide is intended for application developers who are building database-centric Web applications using Oracle Application Express. The guide describes how to use the Oracle Application Express development environment to build, debug, manage, and deploy applications.

To use this guide, you need to have a general understanding of relational database concepts as well as an understanding of the operating system environment under which you are running Oracle Application Express.

Documentation Accessibility

Our goal is to make Oracle products, services, and supporting documentation accessible, with good usability, to the disabled community. To that end, our documentation includes features that make information available to users of assistive technology. This documentation is available in HTML format, and contains markup to facilitate access by the disabled community. Accessibility standards will continue to evolve over time, and Oracle is actively engaged with other market-leading technology vendors to address technical obstacles so that our documentation can be accessible to all of our customers. For more information, visit the Oracle Accessibility Program Web site at

http://www.oracle.com/accessibility/

Accessibility of Code Examples in Documentation

Screen readers may not always correctly read the code examples in this document. The conventions for writing code require that closing braces should appear on an otherwise empty line; however, some screen readers may not always read a line of text that consists solely of a bracket or brace.

Accessibility of Links to External Web Sites in Documentation

This documentation may contain links to Web sites of other companies or organizations that Oracle does not own or control. Oracle neither evaluates nor makes any representations regarding the accessibility of these Web sites.

TTY Access to Oracle Support Services

Oracle provides dedicated Text Telephone (TTY) access to Oracle Support Services within the United States of America 24 hours a day, seven days a week. For TTY support, call 800.446.2398.

Conventions

The following text conventions are used in this document:

Convention	Meaning
boldface	Boldface type indicates graphical user interface elements associated with an action, or terms defined in text or the glossary.
italic	Italic type indicates book titles, emphasis, or placeholder variables for which you supply particular values.
`monospace`	Monospace type indicates commands within a paragraph, URLs, code in examples, text that appears on the screen, or text that you enter.

Preface

Topic Overview

Audience

Documentation Accessibility

Related Documents

Conventions