Expert Oracle Application Express
by John Edward Scott, Dietmar Aust, Martin Giffy D'Souza, Doug Gault, Dimitri Gielis, Roel Hartman, Michael Hichwa, Sharon Kennedy, Denes Kubicek, Raj Mattamal, Dan McGhan, Francis Mignault, Anton Nielsen
Chapter 12. Architecture
By Michael Hichwa
Oracle Application Express (APEX) is a declarative, database-centric application development tool that runs within the Oracle Database. APEX does not fit the classic three-tiered physical model where applications are deployed to the application tier. The definitions of applications are stored in database tables within the Oracle Database. The application server tier manages browser requests and passes page "Gets" and "Posts" to the Oracle Database. In this way, the application server tier is basically a proxy to the APEX engine installed within the Oracle Database. For non-critical applications, or running on a laptop, the XDB listener with the Embedded PL/SQL Gateway (EPG) can be used as the web listener ...
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