This book excerpt provides step-by-step examples for getting started building Web-enabled applications. Oracle Application Express (Apex, or HTML-DB) is Oracle's latest tool for fast deployment of Web-based Oracle systems, and this excerpt will get you started, fast.

This is an excerpt from the bestselling book Easy HTML-DB Oracle Application Express: Create Dynamic Web Pages with OAE by Michael Cunningham and Kent Crotty. Click here to download the full chapter.

Introduction to Apex (HTML-DB)

This chapter serves two main purposes. The first is to introduce the HTML DB development environment, and the second is to provide a reference for topics that are not specifically mentioned in other chapters.

The Application Builder is complex, and this book will not cover it all. The book is written for the beginning to intermediate-level HTML DB developer, so the most common things any user should know when starting out will be covered.

Instead of taking up space in the individual chapters describing the HTML DB pages used to edit the attributes of various components, they will be included in this chapter. When applicable, more detailed explanations will be included in the other chapters.

Access to the Application Builder is gained from the Workspace home page. While on the workspace home page, click on the Application Builder icon. This will bring up the Application Builder home page.