Oracle Visual Builder: Applications That Outlive Their First Release · Module 1 · What VBCS is, and when you need it
Visual Builder against APEX
Lesson 9 of 176 · 3 min
Two Oracle low-code tools with DIFFERENT CENTRES OF GRAVITY. Choosing on THE SHAPE OF THE PROBLEM rather than on WHAT THE TEAM HAS USED BEFORE. Both can build a web application, so the choice is usually made on familiarity — which produces the right answer about half the time. APEX'S CENTRE OF GRAVITY IS THE DATABASE. It runs in the database, it is at its best over tables you own, and its natural shape is a data-centric application built by somebody who thinks in SQL. Where the problem is "we have data in a database and need screens over it", APEX will produce that faster than anything else. VISUAL BUILDER'S CENTRE OF GRAVITY IS SERVICES AND THE FUSION ESTATE. It consumes REST APIs, it has first-class support for Fusion's, it produces a front end that looks like Oracle's applications, and it is the tool that integrates with the Fusion development…
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In this module: Module 1 · What VBCS is, and when you need it
- 1What the product actually is
- 2The four things people ask it to do
- 3When you genuinely need Visual BuilderFree preview
- 4Personalisation first: what you already have
- 5Visual Builder against APEX
- 6The maintenance bill nobody quotes
- 7Where it sits in the Oracle estate
- 8What breaks: the application that should not exist
- 9Lab briefing · Six requirements, one recommendation each