APEX

AnyChart v3.3 currently shipping with APEX 3 is "nice"... but falls short in terms of the type of reporting we need to do.

Numerous issues like the inability to have a 2nd Y axis on the right of the chart, no built-in support for area charts, etc. (a long lists of cannot do's using APEX's flash charts)

And this is (again!), the only real con with deploying APEX for the type of analysis & reporting systems we develop. (and why we have built numerous web systems with APEX, but never been able to replace mission critical corporate PHP/JPgraph type systems with APEX).

As a result of this feature-hole in APEX we have looked around and decided on possibly using FusionCharts - after doing a basic proof of concept to see how to integrate it into APEX. No big problems on the integration side, but still - developing using default APEX charting is a lot easier all around.

Anychart now have version 4.x available - that looks a lot better than the 3.3 Anychart charts in APEX. And has a very rich set of charting types and features.

Have look bit not seen any statement from Oracle regarding support for Anychart v4.

Any comments, suggestions and advice in this regard will be appreciated.

Should we go ahead an get an enterprise license for Fusioncharts and spend development resources on developing a proper APEX intergration framework for it?

Should we perhaps rather buy Anycharts v4 and integrate that instead?

Is this going to be a continual issue with future APEX version that always lags disappointingly behind ito charting features?

Will APEX 3.1 address some of these issues?

Are we the only ones that are frustrated that an excellent product like APEX really sucks on the charting and graphing side?