Oracle Form - need to understand

I need to ask a simple question because I was newcomer in Oracle World.

I just want to understand the history of oracle form.

In Oracle Application Version 10.4 the user interface is in a character mode. However, Oracle Forms is in GUI. I know, now Oracle have move to JAVA as their front-end in the latest release of Oracle Application.

Also it requires a form server by itself.The question is, previously, what tools that Oracle use to develop the character mode type user interface ? Is the tols still available nowadays? I'm asking this because sometimes, I would prefer the character mode rather than GUI for some reason.

Secondly, if I develop a form using Oracle Form, I can integrate it with my Oracle Application right? But how if the Oracle Application is already in JAVA? Is there a tool to convert Oracle From to Java base?

Hope somebody can reply just to give me the idea.

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