Re: Oracle Configurator vs. Forms

Hans Forbrich wrote:

> I hope we are talking about the same 'configurator' product. Last I had
> heard, Oracle Configurator had been moved from the Oracle Technology
> product set to the Oracle Applications product set and was available as
> part of the web-oriented "order entry and order management" set of
> products. This does not limit the use to order mangement or finapps.
>
> When you say "most are operational type applications", do you mean
> primarily heads-down OLTP data entry? Are there are lot of decision paths
> involved? I would consider using Configurator any place where the answers
> to 'page 1' would dynamically select a which 'page 2' or which specific
> 'page 2 entries' are to be displayed.
>
> Yes, the product could manage menus and could manage a custom table. For
> this it's not my first (or even 5th) choice of tool in the Oracle
> repertoire. It's basically an extremely powerful decision-tree processor
> ... "If answer to A is x and B is y and C is x then call the following
> routine."
>
> AFAIK, it is specifically designed to inhabit an area of a web page to
> assist users in component selections - typically stuff like "how many meg
> RAM do you want?" [answer in data checked text], "do you want a lan card?"
> [answer in yes/no radio button], "which games do you want included?"
> [answer in check boxes}. It's also great at taking that up one level "do
> you want high speed email and web page searches?" [ expanding to lan
> card=y, minimum ram=256M, whatever ]. However, I'd consider it more an
> assistant to the controlling application.
>
> Also, IIRC, the later generations of Configurator are only available for
> n-tier, not client-server applications.

[pressed send before the mandatory qualifier ...]

Qualified ... I do not know your environment so the decision to use Configurator could be right. However, based on the information I have right now, I am skeptical.

/Hans Received on Mon Apr 07 2003 - 19:50:28 CDT