The Daily WTF

David S writes: “I’m undertaking a refactor and facelift of an Oracle APEX application.”

That, already, is the real WTF. Oracle Application Express, or APEX (formerly ApEx, formerly HTML DB) is Oracle’s offering in the low-code business application space. Using a WYSISYG designer, you build pages and bind them to SQL queries, stored procedures, etc., allowing users with little to no programming experience to design data driven applications.

Like all such tools: it works fine for the very simple tasks, but once you try and model real-world applications in it, everything falls apart. Some of this is just the nature of low-code tools. Some of this is because much of Oracle APEX is implemented in Oracle’s PL/SQL database language. Some of this is because Oracle keeps bolting features onto it, hoping that it finally gets the traction they want for it.

Which, on the scope of traction, you can see

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