This is the follow-up application of the famous WC 2006 application.

In May 2006 I created the World Cup 2006 application. The goal was to make an application entirely in APEX (Oracle Application Express). In the beginning the application only gave an overview of the scores and the ranking of the teams. Soon the application got interactive: it allowed betting on the games and having discussions through the shoutbox. An other feature was the utilization of Webservices to show some more info about the World Cup. More than 400 people played with us. At "peak"-moments we had over 10.000 hits an hour (after the mention on Tom Kyte's Blog)!

I got a lot of positive reactions, even the APEX development team of Oracle contacted me. It kept me motivated to make this follow-up application...

In May 2008 I updated the application to work with the latest version of Oracle Application Express. The site is now ready to bet on the games of Euro 2008.

You may put your suggestions and remarks in the ShoutBox or on my Blog.

Enjoy this application,
Dimitri Gielis