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Set the workspace name to INTERNAL, the username to ADMIN, the password to
admin123, and click the Login button. You should be able to see the page shown in
Figure 1-7. This will indicate that your installation of APEX was successful.
Figure 1-7.
APEX home page
How It Works
The first thing you might have noticed when trying to install APEX is that there is no installer to speak of.
If you look closer, you can see that the APEX installation files downloaded from the Oracle site are simply
a bunch of PL/SQL script files.
The reason there is no installer is because Oracle APEX is basically a metadata repository. APEX
applications, forms, and reports are nothing more than metadata and PL/SQL code stored in an Oracle
database. An engine called the Application Express engine uses this metadata to render and process
APEX web pages.
Tip
The fact that Oracle APEX, your applications, forms, and reports live entirely in the database makes
backup a convenient process. Backing up an APEX application is no different from backing up any other Oracle
database. Chapter 9 covers the backup process in detail.
