Preface

Oracle APEX API Reference describes the available Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) when programming in the Oracle APEX environment. To utilize these APIs, such as APEX_JSON, when not developing with APEX, you must install APEX into the database.

• Audience
  
• Documentation Accessibility
  
• Diversity and Inclusion
  
• Related Documents
  
• Conventions
  

Audience

Oracle APEX API Reference is intended for application developers who are building database-centric web applications using Oracle APEX. The guide describes the APIs available when programming in the APEX environment.

To use this guide, you need to have a general understanding of relational database concepts and an understanding of the operating system environment under which you are running APEX.

See Also:

Oracle APEX App Builder User’s Guide

Documentation Accessibility

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Diversity and Inclusion

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Related Documents

For more information, see these Oracle resources:

• Oracle APEX Release Notes
• Oracle APEX Installation Guide
• Oracle APEX App Builder User’s Guide
• Oracle APEX Administration Guide
• Oracle APEX SQL Workshop Guide
• Oracle APEX End User’s Guide
• Oracle Database Concepts
• Oracle Database Administrator’s Guide
• Oracle Database SQL Language Reference
• Oracle Database PL/SQL Language Reference

Conventions

For a description of PL/SQL subprogram conventions, refer to the Oracle Database PL/SQL Language Reference. This document contains the following information:

• Specifying subprogram parameter modes
• Specifying default values for subprogram parameters
• Overloading PL/SQL subprogram Names

The following text conventions are used in this document:

Convention	Meaning
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monospace	Monospace type indicates commands within a paragraph, URLs, code in examples, text that appears on the screen, or text that you enter.