Expert Oracle Application Express Plug-Ins: Building Reusable Components

by D'Souza, Martin Giffy

• ISBN13: 9781430235033
• ISBN10: 1430235039
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-11-30
• Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York Inc

Summary

Expert Oracle Application Express Pluginsis your #x1C;go to#x1D; book on the groundbreaking new plugin architecture introduced in Oracle Application Express 4.0. Using the new APEX functionality, you can create well-packaged, documented, reusable components and reliably leverage your coding investments across many applications. Components you create can define new item and region types, specify validation processes, and present dynamic actions to client applications. You can design innovative and colorful ways to display information, such as displaying the temperature using an image of a thermometer, or displaying sales velocity in the form of an automotive speedometer. The new plugin architecture is sure to create a tidal wave of creativity. AuthorsRaj MattamalandAnton Nielsenshow everything you need to know to get started in building and deploying plugins of your own design. You'll learn the underlying architecture, including the APIs used to tie your plugins seamlessly into an Application Express environment. You'll learn about the different types of plugin, and you'll walk through examples of each to ensure that you can create the right type of plugin when you need it. Finally,Expert Oracle Application Express Pluginsshows how to work as part of the larger Application Express community by leveraging that community's efforts and by giving back as you deploy your own plugins to the broad audience of Application Express developers. Presents the architecture and API available for customizing Application Express Gives clear examples of plugin development, for each type of plugin Helps you work as part of the broader community of plugin developers What you'll learn Understand the APEX plugin architecture Design and develop each of the four types of plugin Debug and troubleshoot plugin-based applications Deploy your plugins to the wider community Make your plugins compatible across different browsers Master the plugin APIs that APEX provides Who this book is for Expert Oracle APEX Pluginsis aimed at Oracle Application Express developers wanting to develop reusable components using Application Express's new, plugin architecuture. The book appeals to inhouse developers wanting to preserve their investment in writing code by packaging it for convenient reuse in other applications. The book also appeals to commercial software developers wanting to write plugins for sale.

Table of Contents

Introduction to Plugins

Plug-in Fundamentals

Item Plug-ins

Dynamic Action Plug-ins

Region Plugiins

Process Plugiins

Best Practices & Community

Debugging & Tools

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