Archive for the 'Oracle Forms' Category

Oracle Forms to APEX converter?

May 28th 2008vesterliApplication Express & Oracle Forms

It’s rumoured that Oracle is working on a Forms migration tool that will read the Forms XML (from the XML Converter that comes with Oracle Forms) and produce APEX components - very interesting…

Have a look at David Peake’s Blog for more details.

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Oracle Forms 6i officially unsupported tomorrow

Jan 31st 2008vesterliOracle Forms

At the Oracle Forms Strategy event at the local Oracle office in Ballerup, Denmark, quite a few people admitted they were still running Oracle Forms 6i (client/server, of course). They are officially on their own from tomorrow, when extended support for Forms 6i runs out. If you are still on Oracle Forms 6i, it is definitely about time to think hard about your future direction.

You have several options:

  • Migrate to the latest version of Forms (Oracle promises Forms support to 2013 and beyound). You can do this manually (it’ll take you 1-2 hours per form on average) or use a tool. At Scott/Tiger, we recommend (and sell) the PITSS.CON tool, but there are other (less expensive) options as well
  • Migrate your code to something else (Java or .NET). There are tool vendors offering to do this more or less automatically.
  • Develop new code (ADF strongly recommended). To reuse the business logic in your Forms, move it into the database - that allows you both to call it directly from Java, or to generate PL/SQL Web Services to call from any application

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Oracle Forms event in Denmark

Jan 10th 2008vesterliOracle Forms

Oracle Denmark is hosting an Oracle Forms Strategy session featuring Grant Ronald (and others, including myself) on January 29th at the Oracle office in Ballerup. If you are based in Denmark and are running Oracle Forms, consider dropping by.

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