Advanced Oracle APEX Training (APEX201)

This Advanced Oracle APEX Training course is designed to equip your team or individual members with mastering Oracle's Application Express, a robust platform for developing web applications. This course will deepen your understanding of complex APEX functionalities, facilitating efficient and secure application development for your enterprise or personal initiatives.

Start your journey with Understanding Session State, where we cover what session state is and its importance in maintaining user interactions across web applications. You'll get insights into persisted versus in-memory session states through practical illustrations, enhancing your ability to manage user sessions effectively.

The next section focuses on Data Loading. Through hands-on exercises, you'll create applications, define data load definitions, and learn to handle errors. By loading new employees from CSV files and transforming data on import, you’ll enhance your data management skills. The section also covers working with collections, the Invoke API process, packages, and creating comprehensive Data Load Wizards using the intuitive Universal Theme Color Classes.

In Advanced Security, we explore essential security practices for robust application protection. Learn about custom authentication and authorization, password validation, session state protection, and SQL injection prevention. You’ll also engage in exercises to apply these security features, such as implementing LDAP and Virtual Private Database (VPD), ensuring your applications are secure against common vulnerabilities.

Enhance your application’s user experience with the Navigation module, where you’ll manage shared navigation components and build dynamic navigation menus through exercises. The course also covers the APEX_PAGE.GET_URL function to streamline your app’s navigation efficiency.

Elevate your data presentation skills in the Charts lesson, where you’ll learn about different chart types through exercises. Create dynamic bar charts and pie charts, and understand how to dynamically change chart settings to represent data visually compellingly.

The Interactive Grids section enables you to improve data display and interaction within your applications. By adding and saving interactive grids within the Data Load Wizard, you'll facilitate better data manipulation and user interaction.

Build visually appealing applications with Themes and Templates. This part focuses on best practices for creating and utilizing templates, ensuring consistent and professional-looking applications.

The Build a Plug-in module introduces you to APEX plug-ins, enabling you to create and implement custom functionalities. Through exercises, you’ll develop plug-ins that extend the capabilities of your applications.

With Advanced Dynamic Actions, learn to execute complex client-side and server-side actions. You'll practice these skills by implementing text autocomplete features and client-server interaction exercises, enhancing your application's interactivity.

The Working with Files lesson imparts skills to manage files within APEX. You'll add profile pictures and use CSS files, broadening your application's functionality and design versatility.

Explore document generation in APEX Office Print, where you'll configure APEX for AOP, insert AOP template tags, and create Word and Excel documents, providing users with dynamic document generation capabilities.

Deepen your understanding of web integration with the RESTful Services module. Learn to create and publish RESTful services, make API requests, and set up REST data sources, empowering you to build applications with modern web service capabilities.

Manage application changes efficiently with Application Change Management. Through exercises, you'll work with application copies, understand the merging processes, and compare changes, ensuring streamlined development workflows.

Finally, refine your troubleshooting skills in the Troubleshooting and Debugging section. By enabling debugging, logging, and using the apex_debug_messages view, you'll learn to efficiently identify and solve application issues, ensuring smooth operations.

By the end of this course, your team or individual members will be adept at using advanced Oracle APEX functionalities to build robust, high-performance web applications, paving the way for more sophisticated projects and improved application management.