Why use Oracle Application Express for web app?

Question

I believe we\'re moving to Oracle Apex for future development. I\'ve read about Oracle Apex on wikipedia and it\'s pro and con. It seem to me the con outweigh the pro but ma

Answer 1

Don't put buisiness logic into Apex. Use it for presentation only.

If you put the code in the app your will not be able to maintain it, and you'll get RSI from all that clicking. I always create a wrapper layer, and in the oracle world follow Tom Kytes advise - put the business logic as close to the data as possible. This also means that you PL/SQL modules can be called by other systems etc - and best of all - the real meat of your applicaiton will be in straight text files that can be manipulated with your favourite text editor / IDE.

• Create a view with all of the data to be retrieved for each screen.
• Create a single wrapper package for all CRUD operations. (Thats is Create, Read, Update and Delete I presume)

In short:

DO NOT PUT YOUR APP LOGIC IN APEX.

Thats my advise . . . .