Chapter 7. Improving Application Performance
Performance has always been a big issue when it comes to Rapid Application Development (RAD). Most developers generally share the same opinion: if it's that fast and easy to create an application, the developer will have to "pay the price" elsewhere in terms of tool flexibility or application performance.
While this may hold true for other less integrated RAD tools (and to a much lesser degree for APEX), there has been no other RAD tool quite like APEX. The entire business logic layer in APEX is written in PL/SQL and hence executes within the context of the database—leading to far better performance than with other tools. In fact, APEX is commonly used to host mission critical applications. The APEX ...
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