[...]... an Oracle ACE and was named Application Express Devel-oper of the Year 2006 by Oracle Magazine He is also the cofounder of ApexEvangelists (http://www.apex-evangelists.com), a company that specializes in providing training, development, and consulting specifically for the Oracle Application Express product You can contact John at john.scott@apex-evangelists.com ■ SCOTT SPENDOLINI has been using Oracle. .. already bundled with the product itself, as well as discussed in detail in several online resources Indeed, many people enjoy using APEX without bothering with installation, either because someone else has installed it for them or they are using a hosted environment (such as the public Oracle apex .oracle. com site or one of the commercial providers such as Shellprompt) Others use Oracle Database Express... team in designing features of the product, as well as with Oracle customers, helping them to get started with Oracle Application Express In October 2005, Scott decided to start his own company, Sumner Technologies, LLC, and focus on Oracle Application Express training and consulting Since then, he has worked with a number of different clients on a wide variety of products, each one as different and... to quickly prototype and develop a web application However, as a software developer, you should be aware that speed of development is only one of a number of criteria that will contribute to the perceived success (or failure) of your project The perception of the project success can vary depending on viewpoint For example, a typical project might be viewed by developers, testers, managers, production... used pretty much every version since then on a number of different projects From 1996 until 2005, Scott was employed at Oracle Corporation in the greater Washington, DC area For the first few years, he was a sales consultant who focused on the Oracle E-Business Suite Around 2002, he changed jobs and became a senior product manager for Oracle Application Express For the next three and a half years, he... inspiration for the material in this book comes from my experience developing Oracle Application Express applications and working with the Oracle database for many years I use the products every day, and each day I find new or better ways of doing things There was no way I could cover everything in a single book However, I hope that this book provides a “checklist” of the most common scenarios that people encounter... application development environment Thomas Kyte http://asktom .oracle. com/ About the Authors ■ JOHN EDWARD SCOTT has been using Oracle since version 7 (around 1993) and has used pretty much every release since then He has had the good fortune to work on a wide range of projects for a varied group of clients He was lucky enough to start working with Oracle Application Express when it was first publicly released,... support, and end users The developers may feel like the project was a success because they developed the application quickly, Production support may feel like the project was a failure because no one has a clear strategy on how to perform application upgrades The end users may dread using the application because it runs incredibly slowly Clearly, for the project to be considered a success, you need to satisfy... care about them, and how to protect yourself from them There is a section on session state protection that follows the same format: what it is, how it is exploited, why you care, and how to protect yourself The same mentoring occurs with datalevel access, where the authors introduce how to use Virtual Private Database, a core database feature (not really an APEX feature) to protect your data from unauthorized... application will look and feel To fully utilize the power of APEX, you need to have a guide and a mentor, to show you how to do so, very much akin to what I do with people regarding the Oracle database This book, Pro Oracle Application Express, is that guide The authors, Scott Spendolini and John Scott, are those mentors The book walks you through the steps you need to understand after you’ve installed . class="bi x0 y0 w0 h0" alt="" Pro Oracle Application Express ■■■ John Edward Scott and Scott Spendolini Pro Oracle Application Express Copyright © 2008. became a senior product manager for Oracle Application Express. For the next three and a half years, he worked with the Application Express development