Background
Historically speaking, Application Express has gone through many name changes since its inception in 2000. A reasonably complete history of the names includes:
- Flows
- Oracle Platform
- Project Marvel
- HTML DB
- Application Express (APEX)
One popular misconception is that Application Express is merely new version of Web DB. Mike Hichwa created Web DB, a successful web front-end for Oracle, but the development of Web DB started to move in a direction that diverged from Mike's vision. When tasked with building an internal web calendar, Mike enlisted the help of Joel Kallman and started "Flows". They co-developed the Web Calendar and Flows, adding features to Flows as they needed them to develop the calendar. In the earliest days of Flows, there was no front-end for it, so all changes to an application were made in SQL*Plus via inserts, updates and deletes. In some ways APEX is an evolution of Web DB, but it was developed with new code and no upgrade path.
A popular application developed in Application Express is the AskTom application developed by Thomas Kyte. Oracle's Metalink support site had been running on APEX, but was replaced with a Flash version in September 2008. Oracle's online store also runs on APEX.
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