Using packaged applications

A long time ago, in earlier versions of Application Express, APEX was shipped with sample applications. These samples showed some of the techniques available in APEX.

As of Version 4.2, APEX is shipped with packaged applications. Packaged applications are prebuilt applications. There are two types of packaged applications: applications that offer productivity and sample applications that demonstrate the several features of APEX. The sample applications are very useful when you want to know how things work in APEX.

The productivity applications help you manage your APEX project. Productivity applications include bug tracking, application archive, and many more. Oracle offers support and updates on packaged applications, but only as long as the application is locked, which means that you cannot view or edit the application. Sample applications don't have to be unlocked. You can always view and edit them. In this recipe we will see how we can embed packaged applications...