by Rodrigo Mesquita | Sep 20, 2018 | APEX, Oracle Forms
Oracle Forms and Oracle Application Express (APEX) are both technologies used to build data centric applications. APEX uses the best of the modern web to create native web applications. Oracle Forms uses NPAPI plugins relying on Java technologies to render the page....
by Simon Greenwood | Dec 14, 2017 | Blog, Oracle Forms
Back in August 2015 I wrote a blog titled ‘The Future of Forms’ and a colleague of mine, Jon Lingard, followed this up in December 2015 by writing a continuation based upon his experience; ‘The (continued) future of Oracle Forms’. As two years have passed since these...
by Matt Mulvaney | Apr 11, 2016 | Blog, Explorer, How to, Oracle Forms
APEX Session State summary for Forms developers Session State may well be an unfamiliar concept to Oracle Forms Developers although it is a really powerful part of Oracle APEX which is important to master. Session state holds the values of page items e.g. check boxes,...
by Matt Mulvaney | Jan 13, 2016 | Blog, Explorer, How to, Oracle Forms
Querying Data in Oracle Forms vs APEX When creating a Data Block on an Oracle Form Canvas, the developer can create a multi-line view of the data which displays a defined number of rows to provide a view of the data for the users. The native behaviour of this Data...
by Matt Mulvaney | Jan 4, 2016 | APEX 5.0, Blog, Explorer, How to, Oracle Forms, Why use APEX
Oracle Forms Item Placement in APEX When I first started looking at APEX one of the early challenges I encountered was how to place items exactly where I wanted them on the screen. In Oracle Forms, this is achieved by setting canvases at specific dimensions, placing...
