Chapter 1. OHS, EPG, and APEX Listener Compared
By John Edward Scott
When I first started using APEX, I didn't really have a choice when it came to deciding which web server to use; in a similar vein to the often-quoted Henry Ford ("any colour as long as it's black"), it was a case of "Use any web server as long as it's the OHS". The OHS is the commonly used name for the Oracle HTTP Server.
However, as with all things technology related, times change. Oracle 9i Release 2 brought XML DB and with it an embedded web server. As of Oracle 10g Release 2, this embedded web server can be used as an embedded PL/SQL gateway to run PL/SQL via a browser. It is commonly known as the EPG (Embedded PL/SQL Gateway) and controlled via the DBMS_EPG package.
So, things ...
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