* With Application Express, you can focus on the problem at hand. Much of the development process is managed for you: security, authentication, database interactions, input validation, session state management and many other dependencies work out of the box. All the tools you need are available in a single, extensible platform, which runs as a part of the Oracle Database. * Application Express offers all the tools you need to be productive: a modern browser-based IDE, drag and drop layouting, sophisticated code editing, and a rich property editor. Whether you are a citizen developer, or an experienced enterprise developer, Application Express minimizes the complexity involved with multi-faceted applications. * Customize your Application's UI without writing a single line of CSS or Javascript. You can change everything from the way one button looks to the entire theme of the app, with a few points and clicks. All widgets and styles provided by Application Express have been tested extensively, meaning that your app will look good no matter what device or browser you use. Application Express delivers a built-in suite of 35 sample applications. They can be copied, edited, and used as a basis for the applications you want to develop, or as a quick solution for your business's needs.

* Stripes is simple in that it doesn't force developers to grok everything about it in order to get started. By not having to know all the details, or even that many of them exist, it's easy for a developer to get the basics and get started. A perfect example of this is the interceptor framework, and the before/after methods. A developer can be blissfully ignorant of these with no negative consequences. But when a need for such a function arises, they are easy to discover. * Stripes, at its core, is an action framework and action frameworks as a whole don't shy away from the fact that the entire web is implemented on top of a stateless protocol (HTTP). It supports backward compatibility.