APEX 5 now release into production with big impact and wow features, as part of continuous learning process, now I am preparing new development environment on my laptop (Windows 8.1 SL).
Oracle Database 12c enable to create separated environment with multiple APEX version in a single db instance. APEX 4.2.6 is my recent stable applications and APEX 5 as new learning development.
Oracle Database 12c enable to create separated environment with multiple APEX version in a single db instance. APEX 4.2.6 is my recent stable applications and APEX 5 as new learning development.
Dev Environment:
- Windows 8.1 SL 64bit
- OracleDatabase 12c Enterprise Edition Release
- OracleREST Data Services 3.0.0.65.09.31
- ApacheTomcat 8.0.21
- JavaJDK 1.8.0.40
- Oracle SQL Developer 4.1 EA2 (4.1.0.18.37)
Scenario:
- APEX 4.2.6 on PDB426
- APEX 5 on PDB500
Installation
- Create 2 PDB : PDB426 and PDB500
- Uninstall apex on CDB
- Install APEX 4.2.6 on PDB426 with images /i/
- Install APEX 5 on PDB500 with images /i5/
- Setup ORDS as APEX4 for APEX 4.2.6 container => change ords.war to apex4.war
- Setup ORDS as APEX5 for APEX 5 container => change ords.war to apex5.war
ORDS installation Tomcat 8 :
- Unzip Ords into temp directory : C:\temp\apex4 and C:\temp\apex5
- Create separated config directory for each apex version : C:\Tomcat\apex4-config and C:\Tomcat\apex5-config.
- Install ords for each version
- Copy apex4.war and apex5.war to \tomcat-home\webapps
- Copy APEX images to \tomcat-home\webapps\ROOT don't forget to change images into i and i5 folder
- Run Tomcat and enjoy :D
Now you have 2 APEX version in single instance
- APEX 4.2.6 : http://localhost:8080/apex4/f?p=4550:1
- APEX 5 : http://localhost:8080/apex5/f?p=4550:1
