Document development standards

When building APEX applications, be sure to document and communicate development standards to the entire development team. Development standards help to ensure that pages are developed consistently and help to make development and maintenance of applications easier. Even though the core development in APEX is done through wizards and property pages, proper development standards should still apply, such as naming and formatting. Development standards should cover various areas such as the following:

• APEX naming standards items, validations, processes, and other APEX object names should be informative and indicate their origin, location, or functionality. For example, item name should include the page it's defined on, the database column it may associate with, etc. The P12_EMPNO item name indicates that the item is on page 12 and associates with the EMPNO column.

• Oracle database naming standards

• PL/SQL coding standards

• Common code

• Deployment Procedures

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