Oracle has quietly rolled out the APEX 5.1 early adopter 2 (EA2) on http://apexea.oracle.com. If you sign up today, you will get an APEX 5.1 EA2 workspace.
Comparing the long list of missing features in EA1 with EA2, you can see that Oracle is much closer to being ready. The Interactive Grid is one of the main new features, and the list of missing functionality in EA1 contained 40 items, but in EA2, that list has been reduced to 8 items.
Things that now work include
- Dynamic Actions
- Cascading LOVs
- Computations
- Control Breaks
- Sort dialog
This makes it possible to start to get a real impression of what Interactive Grids can do for you.
The few features still listed as missing from Interactive Grid are:
- Highlighting Dialog is functional but no rows or cells will be highlighted.
- Edit: Submit Includes Selected Rows
- Performance: Requires Filter
- Pagination: Type option None - is not functioning correctly
- Icon View: Icon Type - Does not support BLOB based icons
- Column Filter: Required
- Security: Restricted Characters
- Some of these things only apply when the grid is editable but they are always shown: Width, Value Placeholder, Height
The full list of missing features and known issues can be found here.
Oracle asks you to test it out and submit your feedback.