Date difference in APEX 4

Dear APEX Expers,
I am working on a small scale application, I have two date fields for employees leave form one is start_date, and other is end_date,
first i want to make a check that is user enters end_date less then that of start_date then system should not allow him/her and pops up a message that use a larger date thn start_date,
next I have third field where i want to show a auto difference after user enters both dates.
Thanks in Advance
Kind Regards
Mazahir Abbas

Hi,
Just go to same page:
http://apex.oracle.com/pls/otn/f?p=9904351712:18:222164516075521::NO:RP::
I add another region code for source code.
Regards,
Kartik Patel
http://patelkartik.blogspot.com/
http://apex.oracle.com/pls/apex/f?p=9904351712:1

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