Preface

Oracle Application Express is a hosted declarative development environment for developing and deploying database-centric Web applications. Oracle Application Express turns a single Oracle database into a shared service by enabling multiple workgroups to build and access applications as if they were running in separate databases.

Oracle Application Express Application Migration Guide describes how to convert applications from either Microsoft Access or Oracle Forms to Oracle Application Express.

This preface contains these topics:

Topic Overview
Audience
Documentation Accessibility
Related Documents
Conventions

Topic Overview

This document contains the following chapters:

Title	Description
Getting Started with Application Migrations Workshop	Provides an overview of the steps needed to migrate a Microsoft Access application or Oracle Forms application and generate an Oracle Application Express application.
Overview of the Migration Process	Explains how specific types of logic is handled in Oracle Application Express.
Migrating a Microsoft Access Application	Explains how to migrate a Microsoft Access and generate an Oracle Application Express application.
Converting an Oracle Forms Application	Explains how to migrate an Oracle Forms application and generate an Oracle Application Express application.
Oracle Forms Generation Capabilities and Workarounds	Describe how objects are generated during the conversion process, or alternatively how the same functionality can be implemented post-generation if necessary.

Audience

Oracle Application Express Migration Guide is intended for application developers who are building database-centric Web applications using Oracle Application Express. The guide describes how to migrate a Microsoft Access application and generate an Oracle Application Express applications

To use this guide, you must have a general understanding of relational database concepts and an understanding of the operating system environment under which you are running Oracle Application Express.

Documentation Accessibility

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Access to Oracle Support

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Related Documents

For more information, see these Oracle resources:

For additional documentation available on Oracle Technology Network (OTN), visit the Oracle Application Express web site located at:

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/developer-tools/apex/overview/index.html

For additional application examples, go to the Learning Library. Search for free online training content, including Oracle by Example (OBE), demos, and tutorials. To access the Oracle Learning Library, go to:

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/tutorials/index.html

Printed documentation is available for sale in the Oracle Store at:

http://shop.oracle.com/

If you have a user name and password for OTN, then you can go directly to the documentation section of the OTN web site at:

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/indexes/documentation/index.html

Conventions

The following text conventions are used in this document:

Convention	Meaning
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italic	Italic type indicates book titles, emphasis, or placeholder variables for which you supply particular values.
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