About Plug-ins

Plug-ins allow developers to declaratively extend the built-in types available with Application Express and to enable developers to share and reuse them.

Application Express supports a set group of item, region, dynamic action and process types. Plug-ins offer a means of augmenting these built-in types by declaratively creating and using new types in your application. Because plug-ins are designed for reuse, developers can export and import them to other workspaces and also share them with the Application Express Plug-in community by using the Plug-in Repository.

The process of implementing a plug-in involves the following:

Create or import a plug-in in to your application workspace.
Edit or create an item, region, process or dynamic action type to use the plug-in.
Run your application to test the plug-in.

For Plug-in implementation examples, go to the Learning Library at the following location, click the All Content tab and enter search criteria for Application Express (APEX) Product OBEs:

http://apex.oracle.com/pls/apex/f?p=9830:1:0::NO