Oracle Application Express 5.0–statement of direction

Oracle Application Express 5.0 will focus on enhancements to existing functionality and is planned to incorporate the following:

Modal Dialog – Provide the ability to declaratively define modal dialogs.
Drag and Drop Layout Editor – Reintroduce the drag and drop layout editor which is compatible with laying out items within a grid layout.
HTML5 Capabilities – Improve native capabilities for handling HTML5 constructs.
PDF Printing – Improve the printing capabilities utilizing the APEX Listener FOP Support
Web Services Support – In combination with the APEX Listener further extend the Web Services integration capabilities.
Tablet User Interface – Enhanced themes and templates to enable developers to declarative create applications and/or pages for tablet devices.
Packaged Applications – Improved framework and enhancements to the packaged applications.
New Multi-Row Edit Region Type – Define a new region type with a modern UI for updating multiple rows of data and allow multiple regions on one page.
Master / Detail / Detail – Provide a wizard interface to define declarative master/detail/detail regions.
Multiple Interactive Reports – Allow any number of Interactive Reports to be defined on a single page.
Application Builder Security – Allow different authentication schemes to be used to control developer access to the Application Builder.
Numerous functional improvements.

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