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APEX Diff — A Snapshot Summary

APEX Diff gives us a clean, intelligent way to understand how Oracle APEX evolves across versions making it effortless to pinpoint what’s new, what’s changed, and what may impact our applications.

APEX Diff gives you a quick glance at what has changed between APEX releases. 

By default, the application shows the latest six APEX releases on the right side of the page.

we can use the filter to select any 2 to 6 versions and compare what changed between them.

If we want an overview of the metadata differences between any two selected releases, we can click on either the APEX Views Diff or PL/SQL APIs Diff. Selecting the APEX Views Diff option, for example, will display the differences in columns across APEX Views between the two selected releases. For Public PL/SQL APIs, the focus is on functions and procedures.

Column level differences do not apply here. The app highlights additions, removals or updated definitions in the API signatures.

As developers, we can easily identify deprecated components using this tool.

It allows us to quickly compare two different APEX versions and spot changes.

We can also easily detect if any metadata views were renamed or newly added.

From my point of view, this becomes especially useful when upgrading an APEX application and refer apex versions.

To learn more, refer to the link below.




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