Roels Blog

Now and then this question pops up. And today this question was delivered in my mailbox again. A customer is starting a project to replace a current Oracle Forms application. So he asked Oracle and one of the Oracle partners: What should we use, APEX or ADF? A valid question that has been asked - and will be asked - by numerous customers.  Of course, there is only one correct answer and that is: " It depends…" But in this case, the Oracle representative and the partner answered (according to the client - so their might be some noise on the line) that you can’t build a business critical application with APEX, but only in ADF. My reaction was: "Sigh, here we go again…" The mean reason was : Many APEX users means a high load on your database server. Most other solutions will have a high load on the application server, but the database server doesn’t suffer from that. So what would my reaction be? Herewith some of my thoughts: 1. As this application is position...

Although I’ve attended the UKOUG conferences since 2008, this year’s edition was somewhat special to me. Based on the attendee reviews of last year’s UKOUG, I was elected as “ Best Overseas Speaker ”. And for me that’s quite an honour and of course a recognition for years of work - and practice ;-) And with a title comes a plaque - it’ll get a special place on my bookshelf.  I didn’t just get all the way to Liverpool to collect my award. I also did three presentations - from my point of view it was only 2.5, but I have to round up according to Brendan Tierney… The first one I did was “ Ten Tiny Things ” about a couple of the less known new features of APEX 5. And I showed something even one of the APEX Development Team members didn’t know ;-) . The second one was together with Brendan (that’s why I usually count this one only as .5) about the things you can do with the Oracle Data Miner and Oracle Text features in combination with APEX. We both thought it went very well and ...