Oracle announced the much awaited Oracle Apex 18.1 today. Oracle Application Express is a free development tool by Oracle. It allows developers to create web-based applications quickly by using a web browser on an Oracle database.
With Oracle Apex 18.1, Oracle provides easy integration of data from the REST services with data taken from the SQL queries within an Oracle database to build scalable applications. The new release also includes high-quality features for creating applications without the need of coding.
Let’s have a look at some of the major features and improvements in Oracle Apex 18.1.
Updates have been made to the REST workshop. Apart from helping with creating REST services against Oracle database objects, the new REST workshop comes with an added ability to generate Swagger documentation against REST definitions with just a button click.
Oracle APEX 18.1 comes with a native authentication scheme and social sign-in. It is possible for developers to create applications in APEX using authentication methods such as Oracle Identity Cloud Service, Facebook, Google, generic OAuth2 and generic OpenID Connect without coding.
Oracle JET 4.2 engine is a new feature to the APEX 18.1. It consists of updated charts as well as APIs. It also comes with different types of charts such as Box-Plot, Gantt, and Pyramid. These provide support for multi-series sparse data sets.
The new release includes a set of 32 x 32 high-resolution icons that automatically selects the right font size.
Accessibility mode is deprecated as the latest release will make use of APEX Advisor which consists of a bunch of tests to identify the most occurring accessibility issues.
These are the major updates and improvements made in the latest Oracle APEX 18.1. Existing Oracle APEX 18.1 customers just need to install APEX 18.1 version to avail all the latest upgrades.
To know more about Oracle APEX 18.1, be sure to check out the official Oracle Apex Blog.
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