Tag Archive: Carl Backstrom

Jun 15 2011

The “XFILES APEX Community Edition” (XACE) is available for download

For all those to see and learn what you can do when combining the power of Oracle XMLDB and Oracle APEX an alternative APEX XFILES application is now available for download via http://xace.sourceforge.net. It is based on the combined efforts of Mark Drake and Carl Backstrom to convert the XMLDB XFILES demo application towards APEX. …

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Nov 08 2009

XFILES (Part 3) – The APEX Look and Feel

Had my adventures today. Most of the packages are compile and the XDB utility packages are in place (will come back on those in a later post). Apparently as said before, Mark has added some extra new functionality “Application Security” for use with APEX. This almost locked me out today after bringing into place all …

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Nov 06 2009

XFILES (Part 2) – APEX Newbie Enhancement Requests

Its not yet “the breeze” I hoped for in regard to “Installing XFiles” on APEX. I am missing parts of the source that XFiles in APEX is build upon and although I know where I can get it, it is not easy to implement it “The APEX” way. For example XFiles is depending on XDB …

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Nov 01 2009

XFILES (Part 1) – In Remembrance of Carl Backstrom

There is a demo application out there for Oracle XMLDB, called XFILES, that demonstrates the Oracle XML database functionality. During Oracle Open World 2008 I attended a presentation of Mark Drake, Sr Product Manager XMLDB and Carl Backstrom, called “Oracle Application Express and Oracle XML Database: A Match Made in the Database“. Mark had build …

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Sep 30 2009

Oracle Open World 2009 – XMLDB Sessions and Presentations

Its time to enlist. It really is. At least regarding the XMLDB related sessions and presentations during Oracle Open World 2009. As far as I have seen today, the hands-on workshop has almost no seats left and more than half already enlisted for my XMLDB New Features and XMLDB Performance related presentation. Oracle Open World …

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Sep 13 2007

XFILES – XMLDB Content Management Example Application and More…

The XMLDB team has posted a demo application on the XMLDB section of OTN called XFILES. This application is a demonstration of almost all important features of the Oracle 11g XMLDB functionality, deployable on Windows or Linux platform, combined with technologies like AJAX and Oracle Text.

Main page XFILES (included some created directories)

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