Oracle trying to kill Forms?
Nov 15th 2009vesterliUncategorized
While Oracle continues to officially support Forms, the installation procedure for Forms 11g makes you wonder if they are not secretly wishing that all us old Forms programmers would just go away.
If your are a developer trying to take Oracle Forms 11g for a quick spin, you know you are not going to be reading the documentation, right? You’ll just download the software and start it up, right? Not so.
This is what will happen:
- You find the Fusion Middleware 11g download page and download the “Portal, Forms, Reports and Discoverer” installation (2.1GB)
- When you start the installer, you are told that you need to both create a repository according to one document, and that you need to perform a WebLogic Server installation according to another document
- The documentation-averse developer might try to download the Repository Creation Utility, but it comes without any obvious setup.exe or documentation
Now at this point the developer has two choices:
- Read the Oracle documentation
- Move to Microsoft Visual Studio, IBM WebSphere or another developer-friendly environment
I wonder what will be the most common response from a developer…
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