Pro Oracle Application Express source code?

Greetings,
I bought this book almost a year ago and have yet to see the source code posted on the Apress website. Does anyone know if the source code actually exists or is it vaporware?
Regards,
Bill Chadbourne

Bill,
somebody's lying and it's not Apress.That's a pretty aggressive accusation, you seem to be taking this almost personally for some reason?
As the author of the book, I can assure you that I have nothing to gain by not making the source code available (can you think of a single reason?).
As I mentioned previously, we (myself and APress) are sorting this out as we speak. Please bear with us while we address the issue.
John.
Blog: http://jes.blogs.shellprompt.net
Work: http://www.apex-evangelists.com
Author of Pro Application Express: http://tinyurl.com/3gu7cd
REWARDS: Please remember to mark helpful or correct posts on the forum, not just for my answers but for everyone!

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John, I could send you an email, but I'm sure quite a few other visitors might also be interested in your answer.
When will your book be published?

Hello Johannes.
Take a look at..
Pro Oracle Application Express - Book
Take a ticket and join the queue.
Lots of people want to know. :-)
Simon.

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I thought this book was being released at the end of June? It appears as though now it's just a pre order and it doesn't ship until September?
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The book was always targetted to coincide with APEX 3.0, as you can appreciate it's difficult to write about a new version of software before it is written (and it takes a long time to write a book, as I've learned).
So, whilst much of the book could be written before I had access to 3.0, much of it was highly dependent on the new features that 3.0 introduced.
However, there is also an important point. The book does not just cover specific features of 3.0, it also tries to show how to use specific features to achieve specific business aims. In other words, rather than just listing the features of APEX 3.0 (which the Oracle provided help does a great job of), the book tries to show how to achieve real world requirements, for example -
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When I was first started outlining the book, I was torn between whether it should just show the latest and greatest features available in 3.0, or whether it should attempt to show how to actually use those features in the real world. I opted for the later approach, since ultimately we don't just use a tool for the sake of it, we use it to achieve a particular aim.
As for the 'out-of-date' aspect, there are two sides to that, I could certainly have chopped out huge chunks of what I've put into the book in order to make it ship as soon as possible. But would that have made it a better book (and more useful?) because it came out earlier? I don't think so, but obviously I'm biased ;)
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Look on last page of book for an offer to download the e-book for $10.00.. John has been trying to get the epress folks to release the code listings from the book for a while, so I would suggest to you get the e-book in PDF form..
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