Changes in This Release for Oracle REST Data Services Installation, Configuration, and Development Guide

This section lists the changes in this document for release 20.2.

Changes in Oracle REST Data Services Release 20.2

This section lists the changes in Oracle REST Data Services for this release.

New Features

Following are the new features in this release:

• Configure and use ORDS Database API with Open Service Broker API compatible platforms. See Configuration of the Database API.
• Supported Oracle Application Express (APEX) Versions
• Disabling ORDS Database API services. See Advanced Setup to Enable the ORDS Database API.
• Managing ORDS Administrator Privilege
• Managing ORDS Runtime Privilege
• Oracle REST Data Services PL/SQL package reference functions:
  • ORDS.SET_SESSION_DEFAULTS
  • ORDS.RESET_SESSION_DEFAULTS
• Oracle REST Data Services (ORDS) ADMIN PL/SQL package functions:
  • ORDS_ADMIN.SET_SESSION_DEFAULTS
  • ORDS_ADMIN.RESET_SESSION_DEFAULTS
  • ORDS_ADMIN.PROVISION_ADMIN_ROLE
  • ORDS_ADMIN.PROVISION_RUNTIME_ROLE
  • ORDS_ADMIN.UNPROVISION_ ROLES

Other Changes

The following are the additional changes made in this release:

• Detailed Third-Party License Information
• Bypassing JSON Generation for Relational Data
• POST Requests Using application/sql Content-Type
• Understanding Configurable Parameters

The following are the changes made in release 20.2.1:

• Starting with ORDS release 20.2.1, Oracle REST Data Services can be installed or upgraded into an application container using the ORDS SQL scripts provided in the ords.version.number.zip file.

  See Setting Up ORDS in an Application Container.