Preface

Oracle Application Express API Reference describes the Application Programming Interfaces, referred to as APIs, available when programming in the Oracle Application Express environment. To utilize these APIs, such as APEX_JSON, when not developing with Oracle Application Express, you need to install Oracle Application Express into the database.

• Audience
  
• Documentation Accessibility
  
• Related Documents
  
• Conventions
  

Audience

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

See Also:

Oracle Application Express App Builder User’s Guide

Documentation Accessibility

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Related Documents

For more information, see these Oracle resources:

• Oracle Application Express Release Notes

• Oracle Application Express Installation Guide

• Oracle Application Express App Builder User’s Guide

• Oracle Application Express Administration Guide

• Oracle Application Express Application Migration Guide

• Oracle Application Express SQL Workshop Guide

• Oracle Application Express End User’s Guide

• Oracle Database Concepts

• Oracle Database Administrator’s Guide

• Oracle Database SQL Language Reference

• SQL*Plus User's Guide and 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.