APEX_WEB_SERVICE API + Oracle Social Network
Dimitri Gielis has written an excellent blog post on integrating Oracle Application Express with the Oracle Social Network using the APEX_WEB_SERVICE API. He has even shared the code on a project on GitHub. If you ever have a need to integrate Application Express with a RESTful web service, I recommend (more...)
Three New Web Service Demos Available on the OLL
One of my colleagues at Oracle, Marcie Young, has created three new excellent demonstrations of consuming web services in Application Express 4.1.
The first demonstration called "Creating and Using a Manual SOAP Web Service in Your Application" takes you step by step through creating a manual web service (more...)
Building an Amazon S3 Client with Application Express 4.0 White Paper Available
If you have seen me present about web services and Oracle Application Express 4.0 in the last year (at APEXposed, OOW, or ODTUG Kaleidoscope), you have probably heard me say that a white paper about building an Amazon S3 client with APEX was forthcoming. I am happy to announce (more...)
Application Express 4.0 Web Services Evaluation Guide
I just returned from ODTUG Kaliedoscope 2010, (awesome event, best one I have been to), and promised during my presentation that the Application Express 4.0 Web Services Evaluation Guide would be posted on the Application Express Web Services Integration page on OTN. Well it now is, so I (more...)
Application Express 4.0 Early Adopter Phase II (EA2) Available
The Application Express 4.0 Early Adopter Phase II (EA2) is now available. Like EA1, this instance is running on Amazon EC2. The beauty of Amazon's elastic IP feature is that we could work on the EA2 instance and get it completely ready, then associate the elastic IP with the (more...)
OTN Developer Days in NYC
Are you in the NY, NY area? If so you should definitely attend the free OTN Developer Day- Hands-on Oracle Database 11g Applications Development event at the New York Marriot Marquis on January 13, 2010. I will not be there, but much smarter colleagues of mine will like Mike Hichwa (more...)
Application Express 4.0 EA Running on Amazon EC2
The Application Express 4.0 evaluation instance is running on an Amazon EC2 instance. You can access it at http://tryapexnow.com. You may also be interested in checking out the APEX 4.0 Web Services Evaluation Guide here.
flex_ws_api now on samplecode.oracle.com
Tyler recently made me aware of http://samplecode.oracle.com/. It is a great place to share code projects, allow others to contribute and comment through discussion forums. I have set up a project for the flex_ws_api and all further development will take place there. I have created discussions for general (more...)
REST Now Supported in flex_ws_api and Other Good Stuff
I have finally added support for consuming RESTful Web services in the flex_ws_api API. I have also added new globals in the API to keep track of cookies, HTTP headers and the response code returned from a service. There is also a global you can populate prior to calling any (more...)
HMAC_SHA256 in PL/SQL
I have been working on an Application Express 4.0 feature to support consuming REST Web services. REST Web services use a simpler architecture than the popular SOAP style Web services. Instead of posting some big XML document wrapped in a SOAP Envelope, REST requests are typically done by passing (more...)
New Web Services Integration White Paper and Sample Application on OTN
Late last year I promised a white paper and sample application on integrating Application Express and BI Publisher through Web services. Well five months later (hey, that's less than 1/2 a year), it is now available on the Application Express Web Services Integration page on OTN. The sample application allows (more...)
20 cents an hour! Who’s got that kind of dough?
In these trying economic times, I thought it would be prudent to try to save some money on the cost of my Cloud experiment. (Although a colleague of mine pointed out that my actions were "anti-stimulative.") I wanted to downsize my machine to the 10 cent per hour machine (more...)
Test Drive Oracle Application Express 3.2 for 60 cents (USD)
Would you like to kick the tires of Oracle Application Express 3.2 on your own instance but do not have the spare hardware? Do you have 60 cents (USD)? Read on.
Amazon has a service called the Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) where you can fire up virtual machines in (more...)
Amazon has a service called the Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) where you can fire up virtual machines in (more...)
RMOUG, Kaleidoscope 2009, Slight Change to flex_ws_api
I know that I am horribly overdue for a post. I was out at the RMOUG Training Days last week and presented on Integrating Web Services and Application Express. The presentation should be linked from the referenced page soon. Unfortunately I only had 60 minutes to present 90 minutes worth (more...)
More Changes to flex_ws_api
I added three new functions to the flex_ws_api. The most significant is the new make_request function which is just like the procedure with the same name but returns an XML type instead of storing the results in a collection. It became apparent to me that you may (more...)
The New flex_ws_api and SOAP 1.2 Example
Before I make wild claims like the one I made on October 22, where I said "flex_ws_api now supports SOAP 1.2" I probably should have tested the code against a SOAP 1.2 service. I can now say that I have tested it with a SOAP 1.2 service (more...)
flex_ws_api Now Supports SOAP 1.2
I recently became aware that not only is the message and envelope format of SOAP 1.2 different from SOAP 1.1, but also the Content-Type HTTP header as well. If you send the Content-Type of a SOAP 1.1 message, text/xml to a SOAP 1.2 document, you (more...)
APEXposed 2008
I will be presenting at APEXposed 2008, October 29 - 30, at Chicago O'Hare Wyndham. I am going to present on everything Application Express and Web services. You can view the abstract here:
http://www.odtugapextraining.com/presentations.html#IntegratingWebServices
Register for the event here:
http://www.technicalconferencesolutions.com/ODTUG_OPP_registration.html
Hope you can make it!
http://www.odtugapextraining.com/presentations.html#IntegratingWebServices
Register for the event here:
http://www.technicalconferencesolutions.com/ODTUG_OPP_registration.html
Hope you can make it!
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