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

On my project, we use Oracle APEX for internal views of our system. It works very well for that purpose.

There's no programming required. PL/SQL and even SQL are optional. As a result, our DBA and operator can mold the view to their liking.

On the downside, if there's a feature you need which is not programmed into the system, it's very hard to add it. For instance, we wanted to color-code our output and have not been able to do that.

I would not want to have a customer-facing site built on APEX.

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On the question of scalability, one nice thing about APEX is that it's built on Oracle. Focus on writing good SQL and designing the tables properly, and things should scale just fine. I'd be more concerned about getting enough users for scalability to be the problem.