Sunday, November 23, 2008

Step-by-step guide to install Oracle Application Express on Oracle XE Database on Windows

Oracle Application Express - one of the hidden jewels of Oracle is a rapid web application development tool. APEX uses only a web browser to develop, deploy and administer professional applications that are fast and secure. APEX combines the qualities of a personal database, productivity, ease of use and flexibility with qualities of an enterprise database, security, integrity, scalability, availability, and built for the web.

APEX lives completely within Oracle database and is also available with Oracle Express Edition database which is a free product from Oracle.With Oracle XE & 11g APEX has no footprint at the operating system level and that makes it an extremely simple architecture to use. Using APEX applications can be deployed on a desktop to start with and can be scaled up very easily.

Try Oracle Application Express - It's easy to develop, easy to deploy & easy to administer. Check out this step-by-step guide to install Oracle Application Express on Oracle XE database on Windows platform.





2 comments:

Errol said...

I followed your instructions and everything went well until I got to step 13 and tried to access the Oracle Application Express Administration Services.

The page comes up but when I click on the Login button nothing happens. Any idea on what could be causing this problem?

Errol said...

Figured out the problem. changed the
"create directory APEX_IMAGES as '&1/apex/images'; to point to the directory where I unzipped the APEX files.