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Oracle Application Express 4.2.2 is now released and available for download.  If you wish to download the full release of Oracle Application Express 4.2.2, you can get it from the Downloads page on OTN.  If you have Application Express 4.2 or 4.2.1 already (more...)

The Great Lakes Oracle Conference will be held on May 14/15, 2013 at the Cleveland State University campus.  Registration includes two full days of training with more than 30 sessions to choose from, vendor exhibits to peruse, lunches, and a networking reception.  And if that weren't enough, there will be (more...)

Most people are aware of apex.oracle.com, the demonstration instance of Oracle Application Express.  It's primarily used for people to "kick the tires" of APEX.  Last week alone, there were 810 new workspaces approved on this instance.

Changes are coming to apex.oracle.com - it's going to be (more...)

An interesting bug was reported the other day on the Oracle Technology Network discussion forum for Oracle Application Express.  The scenario is as follows:

1)  Download and install Oracle Application Express 4.2.1 anew.
2)  Install a translated version of Oracle Application Express
3)  Login to a workspace (more...)

Oracle Application Express 4.2.1 is now released and available for download.  If you wish to download the full release of Oracle Application Express 4.2.1, you can get it from the Downloads page on OTN.  If you have Application Express 4.2 already installed, then you need (more...)

There is a change in behavior in Oracle Application Express 4.2.0.00.27 that I thought was worth making special mention of.

Most page items have a property named "Maximum Width".  The purpose of this attribute, as the item-level help states, is to "specify the maximum number of (more...)

Oracle Application Express 4.2 was officially released today and is available for download from the Oracle Technology Network.

The main goal of Oracle Application Express 4.2 is to enable the easy development of mobile applications, using the same declarative infrastructure and methodology of APEX.  As detailed here, (more...)

It was just 3 short months ago that Application Express 4.2 Early Adopter was made available.  As of September 21, 2012, the Application Express 4.2 Early Adopter site will no longer be available.  The database will be permanently removed.  If you need to export anything, please do it (more...)

On the evening of Saturday, September 1, 2012 at 1800 PDT (0100 UTC), http://apex.oracle.com will be upgraded to a pre-release version of Oracle Application Express 4.2.

I know that apex.oracle.com is used by numerous people to host their sample APEX applications and sample plug-ins. (more...)

Last week, on August 3, 2012, the Oracle APEX Listener 2.0 Early Adopter was made available for download from OTN.  And also this past weekend, the Oracle Application Express 4.2 Early Adopter 2 site was switched from Oracle HTTP Server/mod_plsql to the Oracle APEX Listener 2.0 Early (more...)

In 2009, I responded in a blog post to the question of how to properly pronounce the abbreviation for Oracle Application Express.  Since then, Chet Justice (*the* oraclenerd) has taken special delight in mispronouncing it to me at every opportunity, at every conference.  But I have to give Chet credit (more...)

Three important questions for you:

1. Did you want to go to the ODTUG Kscope12 conference but couldn't make it because of "[insert excuse here]"?
2. Do you have an interest in learning about Oracle Application Express 4.2, APEX Listener 2.0, HTML 5, jQuery, plug-ins and more?
3. Have (more...)

Oracle Application Express 4.2 Early Adopter 2 is now available at https://apexea.oracle.com.  If you previously participated in Application Express 4.2 Early Adopter 1, you'll need to sign up for a new workspace.

You can get the updated feature list at http://apex.oracle.com/pls/apex/f?p=38997:1:0, but (more...)

A number of partners have been receiving letters from a company named Advanced Dynamic Interfaces LLC.  Although Advanced Dynamic Interfaces LLC has not contacted Oracle, we are aware of, and are currently investigating, this matter.   Letters received from ADI can be forwarded to the following address:

Oracle Legal Department
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Within approximately the next 5 - 10 days, the instance of Application Express 4.2 Early Adopter 1 (https://apexea.oracle.com) will be decommissioned.  It will be replaced by the second Early Adopter release of Application Express 4.2.

Nothing will be migrated from APEX 4.2 EA1 to APEX (more...)

Just in time for the ODTUG KScope12, the Early Adopter 1 version of Oracle Application Express 4.2 is now available at https://apexea.oracle.com.  Feel free to sign up for a workspace and kick the tires. We welcome your feedback (via the Feedback link from within APEX) at (more...)

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Rather than ignore a potentially damaging report about Oracle Application Express and hope no one notices it, I wish to expose it to the light of day.

I read a blog post (more...)

Earlier this week, Tom contacted me with an issue with the AskTom application.  When he was replying to a question in the AskTom application, he would occasionally encounter the error:

Page protection violation: This may be caused by manual alteration of protected page items. If you are unsure what caused this error, (more...)

A person (Wouter Verkuijl) was kind enough to post on my blog, not only the problem he encountered when accessing Oracle Learning Library mobile from his iPad, but also the actual problem.  If you access Oracle Learning Library (or any APEX 4.1 application) from a browser which does (more...)

Oracle Application Express 4.1.1 is now released and available for download.  If you wish to download the full release of Application Express 4.1.1, you can get it from the Downloads page on OTN.  If you have Application Express 4.1 already installed, then you need to (more...)