Scripted generation of forms/reports

Is it possible to generate forms/reports from sqlplus using the Apex PL/SQL packages i.e. instead of using the web GUI ?

Hi user523550,
Well in theory you could but in practice I don’t think so. If you do an export of an application you can look in the export file and see how they use the api’s to build the application. But it would be a bit difficult to really use this for anything. I would be nice though, I am tired of all the mouse clicking in APEX so an API would be nice. :-)
Regards Pete

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