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> It still expects you to have skills in database development so you can achieve everything but generating a Report, Grid or Form from a SQL query takes as long as you need to write the query. And everything is customizable and maintainable in the end.

Isn't this what people thought about Oracle Forms before it going the way it did?

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Yes, it similarly just builds around developers storing the code in the database layer. Forms is still around, with some giant companies relying on it, but of course, it is slowly dying. APEX is also 20 years old already, but based on the web stack. This choice aged perfectly, so it went from a niche inside Oracle to now the default application framework inside Oracle around 2020. Oracle Forums[0] is build on APEX for example.

[0]https://forums.oracle.com/ords/r/apexds/community/home

Is it me, or is that forum site very slow?

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