Re: Deploying Forms Onthe web

You did not mention your platform, so choice of browser may also be an issue. The marketing hype indicates that forms are accessible from any modern browser, but this is not the case. The forms Java client has strict requirements on the Java engine executing the code. The builtin engine in IE will not cut it. Netscape 4.06 and greater do a pretty good job, but tool-tips can be a problem. If you're on NT, Oracle has a product called the Jinitiator which is a souped up version of Suns Java plugin. This is what Oracle wants you to use. It has the advantage of a persistant applet store which mean that you spend a lot less time downloading the java client (which is "hefty").

As you said, you do need a web server, and as Cary said in an earlier reply, the server edition of D2k (on the same machine -- your "application server"). Depending on how you setup the HTML pages that launch the forms, you do not need to use Oracle's web server. On NT, I've used the free Personal Web Server from MS for testing. It installs easily, and works fine.

Random note: D2k FRAMES (a graphical layout object) do not seem to make it through the web interface on NT. No error - you just don't see any frame related color, lines or titles. (On Solaris, the frames come through, although the rendering is not too good.)

-Rich. Received on Fri Nov 13 1998 - 16:11:57 CET