APEX Office Print 3.1 released - support for Docker

Last week we release APEX Office Print (AOP) 3.1, our best release ever :)

AOP was already the easiest and most fully integrated printing and exporting solution for Oracle APEX, but with every new release we allow you to customise the way you use AOP a bit more and add more advanced functionalities.

As more and more bigger companies are using AOP, we focussed in this release more on enterprise features, for example, native HTTPS support, end-to-end and customisable debugging, a new queuing system for large amounts of prints and overall performance enhancements and general improvements.
You can read more about this release in our release history.

One other addition I want to highlight is the ability to run AOP in a Docker configuration.
The Docker image is available for our Gold and Enterprise license.

Docker is the world’s leading software container platform. If this concept is new for you, you can read more at What is Docker?

In the previous days Martin Giffy D'Souza blogged about How to Setup Oracle DB 12.2 Docker Container and Docker Oracle and APEX and Roel Hartman talked about Dockerize your APEX development environment. Those are some excellent posts how to get started with Docker in an Oracle Database and APEX context.

The most important reason for us to make an APEX Office Print docker image available was to ease the installation of multiple AOP instances even more and give the possibility to scale AOP in an enterprise way.

Here's a video how you are up and running with our AOP docker image in less than a minute:



You also find the detailed steps in the AOP documentation.

Juergen Schuster and Martin Giffy D'Souza did a podcast with me end of August, where I talk a bit about AOP and our development too.

If you are not yet on APEX Office Print 3.1, go and download the latest version, even when you are not enterprise, it's worthwhile the upgrade. We updated our AOP Sample Application with some new examples too.

Happy printing and exporting from Oracle APEX with AOP :)