Re: Web Development Tool Advice

we are having a similar problem. I'm developing a forms 4.5 application (soon to be forms 5.0 when Oracle ships it) for the purposes of a meeting room booking system. Currently phase 1 calls for this to be made available to Facilities management staff (approx 5) on the intranet.

In this situation, the applet viewer route is ok, but not perfect. However we eventually want to role this out to Intranet users across the company. This means anyone who want's to use this will have to download an 8Mb plugin (once) and a 450k applet (everytime). If I try to do this I'll be looking for a new job sharpish.

So like you, the applet viewer route is out of the question. We spoke to Oracle UK staff about this, and they shared our concerns. Their suggestions was to reverse engineer the whole thing into designer, and regenerate it into a pl/sql cartridge. At present time I know nowt about this, but have been assured of two things:

1. We will be taking some Oracle consultancy to do this
2. It is in the words of an Oracle consultant "a five minute job"

call me a cynic but....

other possible routes are :
JDeveloper v1
Web Alchemy

sorry I can't be of more help, but I've only been doing Oracle applications for 2 months. Trouble is bosses here think that 2 weeks courses make you n expert. - I wish!

d

On Sat, 12 Sep 1998 22:32:14 -0700, huntclan <huntclan_at_pop.erols.com> wrote:

>Hi,
>
>We currently have most Oracle Tools under contract and are trying to
>get our Forms 3.0 and Forms 4.5 apps to the Web. The perceived Oracle
>solution is either deploy the Forms 4.5 FMX as an applet or generate
>HTML from Designer.
>
>The Applet solution is out of the question (for political reasons) and
>the Designer Reverse Engineering and subsequent HTML generation is not
>going smoothly.
>
>I am no Designer expert and the problem might be just that... But, I
>was wondering if anyone had any advice on the best way to get these
>applications to the Web with OLTP capabilities without using Java.
>(i.e. hire a Designer expert, get new tools, you can't get there from
>here..)
>
>Thanks for your thoughts,
>
>Dave
Received on Mon Sep 14 1998 - 17:06:47 CEST