My Story with APEX

In 2007 I was returning from a 4 month eBS project in the Dominican Republic and some friends were developing a system to manage their livestock. The situation occurred that they could not continue its development and they asked me to resume it, only one condition: that it be in htmldb that came pre-installed in XE 10g.

It was a time of systems in Oracle Forms and Oracle Reports, but they wanted to get out of using licenses. A few years earlier I had met him at htmldb at the Oracle Open World in São Paulo.

I remember lending me the book Easy HTML-DB: Create Dynamic Web Pages with OAE (Easy Oracle Series). And there my head had to change the terminals, the C / S and start thinking web. I remember that this system was later wanted to be sold with installation and I put together a program that installed XE, and then, as we had already upgraded, it did the APEX upgrades and installed the application (all in one .. Click (no, in a single enter )). Then the idea was to pass it to a SAS system. And there we contract a hosting with APEX.

I also remember that they gave me a very interesting book: Expert Oracle Application Express.

In addition from my independent work and later in my own company, I work in an insurance company. In 2009, a mandatory vehicle insurance called SOA emerged.

We had to make a system so that customers could buy the policy online, and then pay for it in what we call collection networks here. Physical places where one takes invoices from any organization and can pay them. The collection networks should be able to collect insurance and deliver the stickers to stick on the windows of the vehicles. We had no experience in web issues so I told my boss if I do it it is in APEX (3.1) and with another colleague we carry out the project even today its code lives and is active. That software should also print on paper, and there if we use Oracle Report. On the first day, tens of thousands of people entered to enter their insurance and we had a problem that somewhat blocked the system, was it APEX? no, the report server was the one who was not correctly configured to support all those requests. Once this issue was resolved, everything worked wonderfully.

Then came the creation of the Uruguay User Group in the Engineering faculty, we held our first event and I had the honor of giving the first conference: Development in Oracle at low cost. A presentation of XE and APEX. Then came the first Tour through Brazil, Uruguay and Argentina with Dan McGhan, where Clarisa and Marcelo Burgos were full with the organization, and then many projects, much training in companies and many conferences, in addition to being able to meet several members of the APEX team .

What else to say about APEX, it is a very friendly tool, easy to use and learn, in addition to being able to make systems fast and elegant. One of the things that I always show in the courses is the history of the evolution of the product, I don't know how many products are updated in this way, with this speed and always innovating.