Dan McGhan's Oracle APEX Blog: The Hitchhiker's Guide to Building Plug-ins

Wednesday, April 18, 2012

It sounds like some people plan to pick up the gauntlet! Awesome! But where to start??? There are lots of great resources out there one could use to build plug-ins for APEX. I'll list the resources I know of here and update the list as I learn of new resources or the links are updated. Let me know if you want me to add a resource. Click here for all the details on the Application Express Plug-in Competition.

Online

Blog Post from Patrick Wolf: Oracle APEX 4.0: How to create a Plug-in
Blog Post from Maarten Van Luijtelaar: Creating plugin item types using APEX 4.0
Webinar Recording from Red Gate w/Martin D'Souza: Building APEX Plugins 101
APEX Documentation: Application Builder Users Guide > Implementing Plug-ins > Creating a Plug-in

Books

Pro Oracle Application Express (has a chapter on plug-ins)
Expert Oracle Application Express (I wrote the chapter on plug-ins)
Expert Oracle Application Express Plug-ins: Building Reusable Components (Martin D'Souza wrote the whole book!)
Oracle Application Express 4.0 with Ext JS (has a few chapters on plug-ins, requires Ext JS)

4 comments:

Michelle SkameneApril 18, 2012 at 10:28 AM
Wow, ask and you shall receive! Thanks, Dan! Love, love, it, and will really try hard to be more than just a plugin 'consumer'. :-)
Mark LancasterApril 18, 2012 at 7:21 PM
Hi Dan

Worth mentioning my book Oracle Application Express 4.0 with Ext JS has a few chapters dedicated to plugins also.

The plugins are ExtJS specific, but they are advanced.

Mark
Dan McGhanApril 19, 2012 at 4:11 PM
Hi Mark,

Thanks, I've added your book to the list.

Regards,
Dan
Pete MMay 1, 2012 at 4:23 AM
Martin's video on Plugins 101 (Youtube in the UK):

This video contains content from UEFA, who has blocked it on copyright grounds.
Sorry about that.

Doh!