2. Copyright © 2014, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. | 5 Lifehacks for the Apex Development environment Five frameworks you should use for every Apex business application Koen Lostrie Developer, Curriculum Development Oracle Corporation March 8 th, 2016 koen.lostrie@oracle.com @koenlostrie

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5. Introduction “Things I do in every project” Requirement “assumptions” Save time later Standards The idea

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7. And the lifehacks are Parameters Logger Mail wrapper Audit Security 1 2 3 4 5

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9. Parameters Business problem: How to make xxx “Configurable” No hardcoding of any data that can change or can be different in dev and prod Lets start with a simple one...

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11. Logger Business problem: log errors, information, debug. What tools are available ? Always: PRAGMA AUTONOMOUS TRANSACTION ! The most used one

12. Copyright © 2014, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. | Logger Code instrumentation Debugging… in both apex & pl/sql All exception handling in pl/sql, in jobs Use it for

13. Copyright © 2014, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. | Logger Open source Does basic logging Easy install Can be configured Great for Apex Why ? Because it has such cool features

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15. Copyright © 2014, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. | Logger Limitation: logger schema needs CREATE ANY CONTEXT database priv But...

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17. Mail Wrapper Business problem: Test mails Tools available: none.Options: don’t use apex_mail (instead utl_mail) or wrap around apex_mail The lifesaver

18. Copyright © 2014, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. | Mail Wrapper Features: Test and Toggle on/off Procs/functions with same signature as apex_mail procs/functions There is an app for that

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20. Basic Audit Solution Basic Who/when/what Not up to scale with Oracle products Limitations I know what you did

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23. Security App Central “hub” app. Group / Users data model Roles and Responsibilities Data security Lock it.

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