Re: Oracle Forms how is performance?

Agree totally - character mode forms are fast. And users love them because, ugly as they are, they can do VERY fast data entry since they don't have to touch the mouse. But this is the last release that will support character based forms. The GUI forms are pretty quick if run on an Intranet that has decent bandwidth..

JSP's definitely run faster, but development time for JSPs takes longer (my experience is they take 3 - 5 times longer than Forms for most non-vanilla screens), unless you use a screen builder like Dreamweaver's UltraDev. UltraDev doesn't allow alot of complexity, so make the screens and underlying tables simple, and let db triggers do the heavy lifting to put the data into the application's 'real' tables.

"koert54" <koert54_at_nospam.com> wrote in message news:_qMl8.18800$DE4.2436_at_afrodite.telenet-ops.be...
> You can still do character based forms with Forms6i - it's bloody fast ;-)
>
> "Tim Bezek" <tjbezek_at_attbi.com> wrote in message
> news:0pMl8.70260$702.19861_at_sccrnsc02...
> > We are considering creating an application using Oracle Forms for all,
or
> > the majority of the user interface. How does the performance (speed)
> > compare to, say java server pages? Do we need to use Oracle's
> > Application Server to deploy forms?
> >
> > Several data entry screens have to 'mouse-less' or basically, character
> > based interface, use of 'hot-keys' for code field look-ups, that sort of
> > thing. Any thoughts on using Forms to create a character based type
> > user interface? I'm concerned that using any type of GUI tool to
> > create these would result in entry screens that are too slow. Any
ideas?
> >
> > This would be new software, so db would be 9i, Forms would be the
newest,
> > which I think is 6.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Tim
> >
> >
>
>
>
Received on Tue Mar 19 2002 - 17:37:07 CST