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If you are running the APEX Listener through Oracle Glassfish, rather than enabling compression in
the APEX Listener itself, you could compress at the Glassfish level, as shown in Figure 1-36. A similar
option exists within Web Logic Server.
Figure 1-36.
Configuring HTTP compression within Glassfish
Interesting APEX Listener Features
There are a couple of very useful features in the APEX Listener that I find very interesting in conjunction
with APEX applications. These features are
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Native Excel document upload
•
Resource templates
The first feature is exactly what it sounds like: it allows you to upload an Excel document via the
APEX Listener, but it goes further than that and allows the document to be parsed into an APEX
collection. (If you're not familiar with APEX collections, you can consider them similar to a temporary
table in Oracle which a user can consistently query from within their APEX session.) This functionality
alone saves you a lot of work in APEX; I've lost count of the number of times over the years when I've
ended up implementing this functionality myself in all the applications that need to allow users to
upload an Excel document.
