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Creating Web 2.0 applications made easy

What about me?

Oracle since v5, Forms 2.3, Case*Designer etc

Presenter at UKOUG (4x), OOW (3x), Collab (1x),
ODTUG (2x), OBUG, OGH, etc..

Oracle ACE Director [DB Dev]

Co-author of Expert Oracle Application Express

APEX 4.0 - What do you like best?

WHY ?

Declarative definition
of client-side behaviour
without needing to know
JavaScript

Just specify

When
Action
What

Specification 1
The application should disable the Alternate
Number field until the Phone Number field is
filled in.

When: Phone Number is null

Action : Disable
What : Alternate Phone
( False: Enable Alternate Phone )

Specification 2
The application should hide the List Price and
Product Image if the Product Available is No.
When: Product Available = N
Action : Hide
What :
List Price
Product Image region

Opposite :
Show List Price
Show Product Image region

Specification 3
The application should have a button that
allows users to increase all customers credit
limit.
When: Button clicked
Action : Update credit limit
What : [none]

Specification 4
The application should set Credit Limits color
according to the amount (green if < 5000, red
if > 5000).
When : Credit Limit changes
Action : Change color
What : Credit Limit itself

Debugging
Switch on Debug
Check the Console

Debugging
Switch on Debug
Check the Console
Use console.log(this);

Debugging

Switch on Debug
Check the Console
Use console.log(this);
Check your AJAX processes

Performance
Downloads and executes additional code
Increases page size

Learn about HTML and the DOM

What is the DOM?
Document Object Model
How your browser sees a web page
Allows access /manipulation of content

Methods
Select elements
Traverse the hierarchy
Manipulate elements

Events
User actions fire events in DOM
We can attach code to these events
Like triggers in the DB

Learn JavaScript (jQuery)

What is JavaScript?
Well its not Java!
Client side (browser) scripting language
Allows us to make HTML applications interactive

jQuery & jQuery UI built in

JavaScript libraries that make things easier

Dynamic Actions are generating JavaScript

Learn CSS
What is CSS?
Cascading Style Sheets
Rules that are applied to element
Pertain to visual aspects: location, fonts, colors, etc.

Closest rule wins (almost always)

Selectors
Used to target which elements rules are applied to
Common selectors include
HTML tag: input

HTML ID: #the_elements_id

Class: .the_elements_class
Pseudo-class: a:hover

Specification 5
Edit customer in popup window and reflect
the changes immediately in the report.

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