作者：John Scott, Scott Spendolini
出版日期：September 16, 2008
出版社：Apress
页数：700
ISBN：ISBN-10: 159059827X ISBN-13: 978-1590598276
文件格式：PDF


Product Description
Application Express, or APEX, is one of the most innovative products tocome out of Oracle in years. APEX is an application developmentframework for developing database–backed applications. It’s easy enoughto get started in that power users can quit storing data in randomspreadsheets and instead centralize their data in the powerful Oracledatabase, all without developer help. Developers arent left out,however. Those who choose to can go deep and leverage the full powerand flexibility of Oracles database engine.Getting started with APEX is easy. Learning how to take fulladvantage of APEX is the problem. It was the problem, that is, untilthis book came along. In Pro Oracle Application Express,authors John Scott and Scott Spendolini open the “hood” of APEX andexpose the full power behind its easy–to–use GUI interface. They showyou what you need to know to produce powerful, professionally polishedapplications, things such as user-authentication models, approaches tolayout and navigation, how to integrate Ajax, how to deal withlocalization issues such as time zones and translations, how tocustomize the look and feel of an APEX web site, and much, much more.
The authors are well–qualified to write on APEX. John Scott runsShellPrompt, a hosting service that handles many large-scale APEXapplications, some of which he is paid to develop. John is a hard–coreAPEX developer. His coauthor, Scott Spendolini, is one of the originalcreators of APEX. Both John and Scott now base their fulltime careerson developing APEX applications. Pro Oracle APEX is your opportunity tolearn APEX from the very best.
About the Author
John Edward Scott has been using Oracle since version 7 (around 1993)and has used pretty much every release since then. He has had the
good fortune to work on a wide range of projects for a varied group ofclients. He was lucky enough to start working with Oracle Application
Express when it was first publicly released, and has worked with it nearly every day since (and loves it).
John is an Oracle ACE and was named Application Express Developer of the Year 2006 by Oracle Magazine. He is also the
cofounder of ApexEvangelists (http://www.apex-evangelists.com), acompany that specializes in providing training, development, and
consulting specifically for the Oracle Application Express product. You can contact John at [email protected].
Scott Spendolini is President and Founder of Sumner Technologies,LLC (http://sumnertech.com), a small consulting firm which specializesin Oracle Application Express training and consulting services.Spendolini has assisted a number of clients from various verticals withtheir Application Express development and training needs. He haspresented at a number of conferences, including Oracle OpenWorld,ODTUG, and IOUG and is a regular contributor to the APEX Forums on OTN.
Previously to founding Sumner Technologies, LLC, he worked for OracleCorporation for almost 10 years, the last three of which he was aSenior Product Manager for Oracle Application Express. Prior to workingwith Oracle APEX, Spendolini assisted customers with the OracleeBusiness Suite and its related technologies. Spendolini holds a dualbachelors degree from Syracuse University in Management InformationSystems and Telecommunications Management.