Flows for APEX is a powerful workflow engine extension for Oracle APEX applications. Model your business processes with BPMN, develop your process steps in APEX, and monitor your running processes with the Flows for APEX application. Flows for APEX was created as a community project by team of experienced APEX professionals to meet the workflow requirements in many APEX applications.

Announcing Flows for APEX v26.1

Flows for APEX v26.1 features significant enhancements to both editions. The Community Edition is a maintenance release, but adds:

  • Task Parameters for easier task development
  • Task Subjects for better task organization and communication
  • bug fixes and stability improvements.

The Enterprise Edition* features major new capabilities, including:

  • Support for BPMN Adhoc Sub Processes, providing capabilities for manual and AI-controlled case management.
  • Fully Autonomous Agentic Agents, with AI-controlled Adhoc SubProcesses.
  • Async Task Execution, allowing long running tasks to run in background processes.
  • Auto Forms, allowing non-APEX developers to create simple data input forms declaratively and build simple workflows

Both editions of Flows for APEX v26.1 will be released during May 2026.

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Fully Autonomous Agentic Workflows*

Experience the future of workflow automation with Fully Autonomous Agentic Workflows. These AI-powered processes can make decisions, adapt to changing conditions, and execute complex business logic without human intervention. Transform your business processes with intelligent agents that learn, reason, and act autonomously to achieve optimal outcomes, inside the guard rails, audit, and control of BPMN-defined processes. *Available in Enterprise Edition only.

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Watch "What's New in Flows for APEX v25.1" replay on APEX Office Hours

Watch the replay of Moritz Klein and Richard Allen from the Flows for APEX team as they demoed our latest release, Flows for APEX v25.1, on a Oracle APEX Office Hours session on September 25th, 2025. What’s New in Flows for APEX v 25.1 - Smarter BPMN Workflows with AI, Suspend and Rewind. See demos for:

  • AI Service Tasks - Adding GenAI into your Workflow
  • Suspend/Resume for running processes
  • Rewind to recover from bad user decisions
  • Improved APEX Human Tasks integration
  • Enhanced event logging, debugging, and usability
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Integration in your APEX application

3 process plug-ins are part of the distribution to make the integration easier:

  • Manage Flow Instance: start, stop, terminate, reset and delete the entire flow instance
  • Manage Flow Instance Step: start, reserve, release and complete a single step
  • Manage Flow Instance Variables: set and get process variables
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Monitor your running instances

The engine app can be use:

  • to monitor the running instances
  • to identify errors by viewing the events logs
  • to restart steps in error after fixing the issue
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Flows for APEX integration tutorial

This tutorial provides an introduction to the usage and integration of Flows for APEX into a process-driven APEX application. We also provide a light version of this tutorial in the documentation, accessible by clicking on Learn More. Updated for v24.1.

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100% Open Source

Flows for APEX is open source. You can share and/or modify it, always under the adherence of the MIT-license.

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