Chapter 12. APEX Forms
We have been hanging around the APEX kitchen for some time now, and so far we have learned about the ingredients that are available to us in it. Now it's time to take these ingredients all the APEX concepts and components we reviewed thus far and do some cooking. We'll start with a very basic dish APEX forms.
As we have already mentioned several times before, APEX applications are data-centric. This means that entering data, and saving it into the database, is one of the most important and elementary actions that APEX should support. As we'll see in this chapter, APEX indeed does it very well with APEX forms.
Every form has two basic aspects that we, as developers, should address. The first one is the logic we want to implement with the form, and the second one is the form graphic and layout design. APEX helps us with both aspects.
Where design and layout are concerned, we made a major decision when we chose the application Theme (color coordination and the general look...
