Re: Web Forms applications

We developed a fairly application that used ServerSide Java Script and a Developer 2000 form that was deployed over the internet. The good news was that the same form in client server truly can be used over the internet.
It didn't fit in our case, however, because of a number of factors. 1. The forms generic applet that gets downloaded to the client is about 500k no matter how big your forms application is(Ours was quite a bit smaller). That download time was not acceptable in this situation. If your application uses multiple forms this becomes better because these generic classes are only downloaded once and all of your forms can use them. 2. The applet makes a socket connection to the server and we were deploying through a firewall, which meant a big hole. (Not too mention a big hole on our clients side)
3. The common browsers (Netscape and IE) do not fully support the java classes that oracle uses. This ranges from an annoyance to the app not working. Everyone claims that they will catch up but we waited about 7 months.
4. You are stuck with Oracles way of presenting an applet and have limited control compared to writing your own applet or even some other web solutions.

We wrote our applications in a LiveWire (Netscape) environment in SSJS, and use Developer 2000 reports and graphics.

Good Luck

On Tue, 17 Feb 1998, Susan Eck wrote:

> Hi all,
> We are in the process of redesigning our database and converting our
> Forms 3.0 forms to Forms 4.5. However, we have agencies outside of our
> network that are needing to access our system. In the past they have
> dialed in to our system into a telnet session and used the character
> mode v3.0 forms. This won't be possible with the GUI v4.5 forms.
>
> We have tried to convert the forms in such a way that the same form can
> be used in GUI or character mode, but are finding that extremely
> difficult, if not impossible. In order to alleviate this problem, we
> are thinking about developing web-based forms so that they can be
> accessed over an intranet.
>
> Does anyone have any thoughts on this and/or has anyone had any
> experience in deploying web-based forms? BTW, we are currently running
> a 7.3.4 database but will soon be migrating to Oracle8.
>
> Thanks in advance for your input.
> Susan
>
>
Received on Wed Feb 18 1998 - 00:00:00 CET