Inside Oracle APEX by Patrick Wolf

Two new Oracle APEX whitepapers

Ok, they are not brand new anymore, they have already been released last month. But in case you are not reading David Peake’s blog or checking regularly the Oracle APEX website on OTN, the APEX team has published the following two new whitepapers: NTLM Authentication (a PL/SQL only solution) and Oracle APEX with RAC (Real Application Cluster) Check [...]

Continue reading...

Using Windows Login Credentials for Single Sign On (NTLM authentication)

Most users are lacy and don’t want to enter login credentials each time they start up an Oracle APEX application. They tell you, “Hey I have already logged in into my computer, can’t you use that information for the APEX application?”. Sure we can! The NTLM protocol is one way to do that. Instructions on how to integrate [...]

Continue reading...

Using Google Account for APEX authentication

Read a very interesting posting on Przemek Piotrowski blog about using the Google Account credentials for an APEX application login. The method described uses the Google Account Client Login API for verifying the user. More details at Application Express user authentication using Google Account. I think that’s a good example of the flexibility of APEX to adapt to [...]

Continue reading...