APEX

This may not be a suitable question for this forum but I can only try.

My experience with APEX is primarily doing everything in the APEX “front end” and only calling PL/SQL packages in the database when absolutely necessary.

A colleague insists on putting everything in a PL/SQL package in the database and putting calls in APEX to functions & Packages.

One example I can quote is we had a conditional tab which could only be viewed if you had an entry in a table.

I did the SQL code for the tab in the conditions section in apex. My colleague then reworked my code to call a PL/SQL package and placed the code I had written on the server.

Another example was a demo of lazy load on an input field he loved it but then when he realised it could not be done via a call to a server side package dismissed the lazy load idea as not relevant even though it would make our users life easier.

I am soon to have a battle royal over which is the best approach. Any comments.