APEX vs. Portal...sort of.
I'm not going to compare APEX and Portal but...
Oracle Portal has at least one thing I would like to see in APEX. The visual page builder. Building a Portal page gives you a very nice feedback of how the regions are positioned on a page and what you will see in these regions. I just started to use APEX and I have no such visual overview. I miss that... Only way to see my page layout is to run the application....or?
Apex http://screencast.com/t/kz9cF5GD9ZG
Portal: http://screencast.com/t/gOLH3FiJN
The portal design time pages are also all generated from pl/sql in a similar way to what apex is doing.
/Mikael