Time to update your APEX development environment

In the last days (and weeks) Oracle has been updating many of the tools a typical APEX Developer uses day-in-day-out.

Here’s a graphical overview of a typical APEX configuration:

Following desktop tools got updated:

• SQL Developer 4.0

• my favourite connection to the Oracle database

• a great SQL and PL/SQL editor

• easy to configure the APEX Listener

• SQL Developer Data Modeler 4.0

• visualise your schema

• model your ERD

Following server side components:

• Glassfish 4.0

• the webserver where the APEX Listener runs

• APEX Listener 2.0.5

• my preferred way to connect to APEX in the Oracle database

• APEX 4.2.4

• a new patch for APEX was released on Friday, the newest version of APEX is now 4.2.4

• it took about 13 minutes to upgrade from 4.2.3 and it did it without any issues

• next to some bug fixes, many of the packaged applications got updated. There are some new plugins available in those packaged apps; for ex. the fishbowl plugin

• Oracle Database 12c

• This version is already available for some time now, but I guess many people didn’t upgrade yet.

• If you are using 12c, there’s a nice APEX application “Multitenant Self-Service Provisioning” you can use to spin up new PDB’s.

Happy upgrading…