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Create Database REST APIs for Mobile
Apps Using Oracle APEX
• Joe Greenwald
• Sr. Principal Instructor, Oracle University
• #OOW18

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 • 15+ years teaching and consulting for Oracle

Classes taught:
• ADF Mobile and Desktop
• PL/SQL and SQL
• APEX
• SOA Suite and Service Bus Enterprise Integration
• Java SE, EE
• REST and SOAP
• WebCenter Content
• Database, WebLogic and FMW Administration
• Data and Object Modeling & Design
• Mobile Cloud

Interests:
• Model-based Development
• CASE Tools
• Enterprise Integration
Joe Greenwald • Methods and Techniques
• Mobile Development – First: Apple Newton 1996
Sr. Principal Instructor, Oracle Corporation
joe.greenwald@oracle.com

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Goal is to Access Enterprise Data on a Company Mobile App
What are the Major Challenges?
How to secure the data?
How to create and manage new roles and access for new types
of users – who are now seeing some enterprise data – maybe
for the first time
So, how do I get the data into the
user interface? How to access the data?
What protocols – SOAP or REST or Proprietary or Security must
be applied to message being sent, & what if it changes?

How to consume the data?

Format – XML or JSON
How much to consume – where does the data get filtered,
mapped, sorted, computed, before display on the mobile
device?
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Expose Back-end Enterprise Data as RESTFul Web Service

PL/SQL Libraries

select…

Oracle begin…
Database http://rest/api Other consumers

Flat
Files

Streams Other services Streams

(REST, SOAP)

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XML vs. JSON Performance

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Consuming Enterprise Data Services Can Be Too Much for
Mobile Applications

Needs to Display:
Data Services
Current Balance Shaped Data

Service Payload Contains Complete

Customer Account Info:

Customer First Name

Customer Last Name
Email
Phone numbers
Addresses
…
Current Balance
Transactions

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Consume REST Services in Oracle Front-end Development
Tools
Mobile:
• Java: Application Development Framework (ADF) Desktop, Mobile ADF (MAF)
• JavaScript: JavaScript Extension Toolkit (JET), Application Express (APEX)
Desktop:
• ADF
• JET
• APEX
• Oracle Forms

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Create RESTFul Web Services in Oracle Application Express
(APEX)
• Same functionality as ORDS – but developed and
available within APEX as well, uses APEX UI and
Capabilities – ORDS can be programmed or managed
with SQL Developer or CLI.

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 3 Steps to a Working REST Service
3. Create a Handler
• 1. Create a Module

2. Create a Template

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Demonstration

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Oracle Application Express (APEX) Solution

select * from customers where cust_id = :id

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Oracle Mobile Cloud Service: Mobile Back Ends
• Mobile back ends are server-side groupings of APIs and other resources
that you create to support a specific set of applications.

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 Diagnostics Analytics Life
Lifecycle
Cycle

MAF Application
Oracle Cloud

Mobile
Mobile
Back End Custom APIs Connectors

Cloud/Internet
REST APIs Node
Node
REST APIs

Mobile Client SDKs

Platform
Platform APIs
APIs
On-Premise

Notifications User Services Storage Database Data Offline

JavaScript SDK

Oracle Mobile Cloud Service

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Developer Roles Oracle Mobile Cloud Service
Mobile Mobile External
App Back End Custom API Connectors Services

http://rest/api Node

Interface Implementation

Mobile App Services

Developer Developer

Defines Interface Defines Implementation

REST API Node.js code
Mock data Connectors
The mobile developer and service developer work hand in hand in parallel.
Or, one person does all the work in sequence.
The choice is yours.

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Summary
• Mobile applications have very different data needs than internal desktop
applications.
• Mobile apps require RESTFul web services to provide shaped data
payloads of smaller sizes.

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