Announcing Oracle APEX 26.1 General Availability
The general availability of Oracle APEX AI Application Generator 26.1, the latest release of the Oracle APEX platform. APEX 26.1 marks a significant milestone for the platform.
Open Application Specification Language (APEXlang)
The centerpiece of Oracle APEX 26.1 is APEXlang: an open, declarative, human-readable specification language for Oracle APEX applications. APEXlang represents an APEX application as a package of structured .apx text files that can be exported, imported, stored in source control, diffed, merged, validated, scanned, and reviewed using standard developer tooling. In the AI era, the application model becomes more than the metadata the platform executes. It becomes the artifact AI can generate. APEXlang gives developers and AI agents a supported way to express application intent in a form that APEX can validate, govern, and execute.
AI Interactive Reports: Talk to Your Data, Trust the Result
AI Interactive Reports let users interact with reports through natural language. A user can ask to show “European customers grouped by industry”, chart service requests by country for countries with more than 50 cases, highlight specific customer segments, or pivot industry by product. APEX can translate those requests directly into native Interactive Report settings: filters, highlights, sorting, control breaks, group bys, aggregations, pivots, and charts.
AI Agents and AI Tools: Governed Conversational Action at the Application Layer
APEX 26.1 makes it easier to add AI Agents that can reason over user requests and take action through approved AI Tools. Each tool exposes a specific application capability the agent is allowed to invoke, within the scope of the application.
The model is simple: an AI Agent handles the conversation, and AI Tools define what the agent is allowed to do. A tool can retrieve data, execute server-side PL/SQL or JavaScript, or request a client-side interaction such as a user confirmation or browser API call. Developers can also use the new Generative AI Tool plug-in type to build reusable custom tools.
Additional Platform Enhancements
APEX 26.1 also delivers significant enhancements across the broader platform, with improvements to workflow automation, page and component development, data reporting, translation management, developer and end-user experience, security, governance, and more.
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