Preface
Oracle APEX Developer’s Companion explains when, why, and how to use Oracle APEX's broad range of features to deliver business value faster with less work. It covers all aspects of enterprise app building including data modeling, UX design, search, visualization, integration, automation, security, reporting, translation, and application lifecycle management.
Audience
Oracle APEX Developer’s Companion is intended for all application developers of any skill level who are building database-centric web applications using Oracle APEX.
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Dedication
This book is dedicated to the memory of Joel R Kallman, Allan Sitterson, and Robert Muench. All left us too soon and are greatly missed.
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About the Author
Steve Muench joined Oracle in 1990, supporting SQL*Forms 2.3 and 3.0 in the days when Oracle application development meant green screens and 80-column terminals. In 1992, he joined the Oracle Forms development team as product manager, helping shape its first graphical UI versions. In 1993, he co-authored the Oracle: Forms Developer's Companion for Maverick Publishing.
From 1994 to 1997, Steve contributed to Project Sedona, a radically object-oriented research effort that evolved into Oracle JDeveloper and Application Development Framework. He initially worked as a product manager and wrote the manual Oracle ADF Developer's Guide for Forms 4GL Developers. He progressed to developer and architect roles on the ADF Business Components team, working often with internal Fusion Applications developers to understand new requirements and deliver declarative features addressing them.
Along the way, on nights and weekends, he wrote Building Oracle XML Applications for O'Reilly & Associates (2000) and evangelized the possibilities of combining SQL, XML, and XSLT before the database included those capabilities. Oracle's latest JSON support stands on the shoulders of the native XML features that followed.
Since 2021, he has been a senior architect on the Oracle APEX development team. Throughout his career, he has helped many internal teams building ADF and APEX apps make the smartest use of the platforms. The Oracle APEX Developer's Companion is the natural culmination of three and a half decades spent supporting, building, using, and writing about Oracle application development tools, interacting every day with the developers who work with them.
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