About Oracle REST Data Services
This chapter is written with the assumption that you already have Oracle Apex installed in your machine. The setup steps provided are provided next to create an example that you can delete later on.
The latest release of REST Data Services can be downloaded from http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/developer-tools/rest-data-services/downloads/index.html. Oracle REST Data Services 3.0.2 is the latest release available for you to download and the filename is ords.3.0.2.294.08.40.zip
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If you are new to Application Express, you can refer to Chapter 11, Working with Application Express.
The preceding diagram briefly shows how a middle tier isolates the database server from the web browser access directly by creating a proxy layer. The middle tier can be a standalone REST Data Service on top of a Tomcat server, which would not require the help of a PL/SQL embedded gateway or mod_plsql
. RESTful services connections are made through the APEX_REST_PUBLIC_USER
user, while...