In Pretius Low-code, we work with a group of people who can use Oracle APEX to develop any application from scratch. What does our APEX development team look like? As you may be aware, it’s not only about coding skills – we also have a lot to say about various business use cases. We know it in and out, and we share this knowledge with others at conferences and universities, showing people how to use APEX in different scenarios. Our team at Pretius Low-code has used Oracle APEX for years to build powerful applications for companies of varying shades and sizes. However, as time went by, APEX became so efficient and easy to learn, that even non-technical users could start using it to develop web applications. Over the years, they have built a platform that allows programmers to create advanced solutions, even enterprise apps – a successor, of a sort, to popular Oracle Forms, which is why companies often migrate from Oracle Forms to APEX. Two people who created this tool – Mike Hichwa and Joel Kallman – started hiring more devs to create a much more powerful tool. Over time, HTML DB was rebranded to Oracle Application Express – Oracle APEX – and in 2006 it was bundled with Oracle Database. It was used internally by Oracle to develop their sites like AskTom, Oracle shop, and so on. The main idea was to give the programmers a way to create an application without high-end skills in the front-end, in languages like JavaScript, CSS, etc. It was meant for Oracle Database administrators and programmers who knew PL/SQL (programming language used mostly in Oracle Database and Oracle Forms). In the beginning, it was a self-standing tool that could be installed onto the database. The technology we now know as Oracle APEX was created in 2004, but it was named differently then – HTML DB. However, before I start, I have to provide you with a couple of details about Oracle Application Express itself. Despite my years of experience with the Oracle Application Express (APEX) low-code development platform and other things related to low-code development, I sometimes ask myself: who is an APEX Developer? Is it a person who only knows the front-end side of it? Should APEX developers know how to take care of Oracle Database? Do they need to understand how to manage the data? In this article, I would like to answer these questions. I started working with Oracle Database more than a decade ago, and I have been an APEX Developer since 2015.
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