After my initial post about this, I had a discussion with John Snyders of HardLikeSoftware fame, and it turns out there is a better and more efficient way to maintain the tree state. While what I outlined definitely works, what follows is the “preferred method” as it uses more of the built in interfaces. I have therefore implemented this version …
Maintaining APEX Tree Region Expansion State
As soon as I was finished with the first incarnation of the ORDS REST Workshop for release in APEX 18.1, I had a list as long as my arm of things that I wanted to do to improve it. Some small, some large. One of the things that bugs me the most is that the APEX Tree region on the …
Reading and Rabbit Holes – The Workflow Project Gone Astray
Although I’ve been quiet as of late with regard to my “All-The-Things” workflow project, that doesn’t mean I’ve been sitting idle. No, in fact I’ve been running in circles at quite an alarming rate. My last related post mentioned that I was ordering and would be reading “BPMN Method & Style” by Bruce Silver to try to get a better handle …
A First Foray Into Oracle JET
Now that Oracle APEX 18.1 development is winding down, code freezes are in place, and only bug fixes are being allowed to be addressed, I’ve directed my development efforts in another direction. With the eventual goal taking the ORDS screens I created for APEX and implementing them in a forthcoming SQL-DEV Web version, I have started learning about Oracle JET. If …
Swagger Doc from APEX ORDS RESTful Workshop
Last week Dietmar Aust tweeted about the APEX 18.1 ability to generate Swagger Doc from your ORDS based RESTful services. This is actually an innate ability within ORDS itself and is simply exposed through APEX. What may not have been obvious in EA2 was that there is also a new Instance setting under the REST section. The new setting takes …
ORDS and APEX – Common REST definitions at last
Since re-joining Oracle, my first major project has been to work on better integration of APEX and ORDS when it comes to the definition of RESTful Services. APEX has long had the ability to define and serve RESTful Services on its own. These have been managed via a section of the SQL Workshop known as the RESTful Services Console. These …
Workflow – Checking out the competition.
Remember when I said that, for my All The Things project, “My goal is to go through the steps I would normally traverse when building an application for a paying client”? Well one of those steps would surely be to understand what was already available on the market and see if any of them fit the bill for the client’s …
ALL THE THINGS – Project Outline
In my previous post I mentioned that I’d be developing a non-trivial, real-world application from scratch and approach it in the same way I would if I were doing it for a paying client. The first step in that direction is to gather requirements and define the project: What is the main purpose of the project and what need does …
New Year, New Blog, New Series
Welcome to my new blog at douggault.com. Up to this point I had been using Blogger.com, but I thought it was time to get to a place I could stretch my wings a bit. Especially considering what the rest of this entry is about… You may or may not know that I (somewhat quietly) re-joined Oracle and the ORDS team in …
Things I have done in my life.
Maybe it’s the fact that I’m coming up on my 50th birthday. Maybe it’s that I’m kind of at a crossroads in my career. Maybe its because I’m a sappy sentimentalist that just like to nostalgically recount his experiences. Whatever it is that drove me, a few months ago I started writing down the things I have accomplished in my …