Friday, May 06, 2011

Application Express 4.1 Early Adopter 1 available

The Early Adopter 1 version of Oracle Application Express 4.1 is now available at tryapexnow.com. Feel free to sign up for a workspace and give it a whirl. We welcome your feedback (via the Feedback link) at any time.

A few important points about Early Adopter 1 of Oracle Application Express 4.1:

  • If you're using Internet Explorer, you will be best-served to use IE8 or higher. You may run into difficulties with IE7, which we hope to correct in the future.

  • Click the "What's New" link to get an overview of the new features in Application Express 4.1. You'll quickly get the sense that this is not the same "big bang" that you saw between APEX 3.2 and APEX 4.0 - but that's by design.

  • You will see some items listed on the APEX Statement of Direction which are not in Early Adopter 1, most notably Mobile Support and Data Upload. Those didn't make the cut for Early Adopter 1 but we hope to be able to provide these when we refresh the tryapexnow.com instance.

  • When we do refresh the tryapexnow.com instance, we will not be migrating any information from the workspaces there. There's also no guarantee that what you export from APEX 4.1 Early Adopter 1 can even be imported into a later Early Adopter instance or APEX 4.1 production.

  • Our friend Patrick Wolf should be blogging soon about the extensive changes made in support of error handling. More explicit control over the error handling in APEX has been a long sought feature. And hopefully this will satisfy those of you who have said the "error handling in APEX sucks" (yes, Bart, that's you).

  • And just to state the obvious, this is evaluation software. You can't contact Oracle Support about any issues on tryapexnow.com. They won't have any idea what you're talking about.

Thank you for all of your support.

3 comments:

Byte64 said...

Great news Joel!
I praise in particular the enhanced error handling (an outstanding request since htmldb 1.5!) and the help label substitution string that I had to simulate using custom logic and dirty tricks...(hopefully it displays in the current language!). By the way, there is no need to use Javascript to display the tooltips when hovering on the label, pure CSS magic can cope with that and you get rid of unnecessary onmouseover and onmouseout events.

Cheers!
Flavio

Learco Brizzi said...

Sounds great Joel! You know I'm also very happy with every enhancement in error handling!

See you soon,
Learco

Joel R. Kallman said...

It's Mr. Wolf you can thank for the improved error handling. He did a masterful job in his design and implementation.

Joel