Re: appserver 9.0.3

From: Frank van Bortel <fvanbortel_at_netscape.net>
Date: Wed, 09 Jun 2004 20:10:10 +0200
Message-ID: <ca7jhk$o99$1@news2.tilbu1.nb.home.nl>

Volker Hetzer wrote:

> "Frank van Bortel" <fvanbortel_at_netscape.net> schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:ca505p$ive$1_at_news1.tilbu1.nb.home.nl...
>

>>Volker Hetzer wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Hi!
>>>I've just read from the install guide that one can't run forms on a 9iAS 9.0.3
>>>and needs 9.0.2 for that.
>>>Does that mean forms are dead?
>>>
>>>Lots of Greetings!
>>>Volker
>>
>>C/S or web-based?
>>C/S is dead, indeed, 6i being the last version.

>
> We are just starting on all this forms stuff, but I suppose we want
> web based forms.
> Is this different from oracle forms? Because the installation guide says
> "For example, you cannot run oracle9iAS Portal, Oracle 9iAS Forms Services,
> or oracle 9iAS Discoverer on top of Oracle9iAS 9.0.3."
> I'm wondering whether this matter except for legacy apps or whether
> they will be available in future appserver releases.
>
> Lots of Greetings!
> Volker

Quite - although other are more qualified to comment; my last serious forms work was back in the V5 days (note: I'm not calling it a serious version :) )

But, seeing the troubles I've had with 9iAS (anything above 1.0.2.2.2 - which I understood), and the ease of 10G (aka 9.0.4), I'd go for that version.
What legacy apps are you talking about - what is the foreseen upgrade / migration path?
If V4.5 (or similar), with heavy MS Windows stuff, beware the web behaves different! Some, maybe most, "nice to haves" in MS Windows forms apps will not work similar on the web. I've seen multiple projects where up front was stated that these things were not important (MoSCoW, and all that), but in the end, the users complained about the look and feel being different to an extend the project was heavily overdrawn.

If you get the chance, I'd opt for a rewrite - not a simple (automagical) upgrade, or -worse- run in compatibility mode.

My 2c,

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Regards,
Frank van Bortel

Received on Wed Jun 09 2004 - 13:10:10 CDT