Running Standalone APEX Listener as Windows Service
When working with APEX you certainly want to use the APEX Listener. It’s a great piece of software and Oracle is committed to extend its functionality (Oracle recently release the beta version of the new APEX Listener 2.0 ). When installing the APEX Listener, you basically have two choices: run APEX Listener “Standalone” deploy the Listeners WAR file to one of the supported webservers The problem (at least, my problem): when using the APEX Listener on my laptop/desktop with my local APEX instance, I do not want to set up a whole webserver, just to be able to develop APEX applications. So I,’m choosing the lightweight option: Standalone! But the annoying thing about the standalone installation is, that I have to start the APEX Listener from the command line each time I want it to be available. It just would be so much easier to just have it as a Windows service, stating during system boot. Seems that an APEX developer from Poland, Andrzej Nowakowski , solved this problem for us and...