Oracle APEX Listener 1.x vs 2.0

The new Oracle APEX Listener 2.0 Early Adopter is publicly available now.
If you compare it to the current production version these are the most changed or new features.

Configuration

APEX Listener 1.x: the configuration screen to tell the listener in which database APEX is installed

APEX Listener 2.x: either you configure the listener through command line

Command line configuration of the APEX Listener 2.x

or through SQL Developer 3.2 or higher (currently not publicly released yet)

Configuration through SQL Developer 3.2

So the web interface is gone in the APEX Listener 2.x… As you can see in the screenshot, you can now configure multiple databases. Before you had to configure multiple APEX Listeners; one for DEV, one for TEST, one for Production etc. Now you can just have one APEX Listener routing to the correct database.

Another new feature is that you can route multiple url’s to different APEX applications.

Resource Profiles (aka RESTful Services)

APEX Listener 1.x; you define Resource Templates through the web interface

APEX Listener 2.x; you can now configure the RESTful Services through a patched APEX 4.1.1 or native in APEX 4.2. The following screenshot shows how it looks like in a patched APEX 4.1.1 version.

New in the APEX Listener 2.x is RESTful OAuth 2.0 integration.

New features

More configuration options.

Integration of ICAP virus scanner, so when a file gets uploaded to your database, even before it hits your database it can be scanned.

More features are there to come, for example integrated FOP support…

I hope you see that Oracle is putting a lot of effort in the APEX Listener… it fits in the proof of the additional features you get with the APEX Listener I mentioned in my previous post “Moving to the APEX Listener”.