Oracle released the new APEX 3.0 just few days back. The tool, formely called HTML DB has become a real mature rapid web application development tool. Easy in use and lots of nice new features.
Just a few of all the new features :
- PDF Printing
- Flash Charts (no more svg)
- Drag and Drop item layout
- Access Migration
To make development with APEX even more productive add-on libraries are being developed. Patrick Wolf is currently developing the ApexLib. The latest release 1.4 is integrating nicely in the new APEX 3.0
On our projects we use APEX not too often. But its good to see that it really helps on the ‘rapid’ part of developing applications. If you don’t want to get stuck on all the java-frameworks and don’t have the java-knowledge in-house, it’s the ideal tool for developing a web-application. With some html/plsql/javascript-knowledge you’re on the right way!
March 22nd, 2007 at 19:15:49
[...] Original post by Eric Elzinga [...]