Re: Installing Forms Reports Builder 11g

S R schreef:
> I have been through the painful process of installing 11g Forms.
>
> Part of the problem is that there is no single step by step guide, and
> you end up having to jump from one guide to another, and the
> instructions don't always tie up between them.
>
> I installed this beast on a Windows 2003 VMWare virtual machine which I
> allocated 4GB RAM and 24 Gb disk space. The host is a Intel i5 6GB
> Windows 7 desktop. I wanted to build a VM which had the whole thing in a
> box for proof of concept and demo purposes. The good about building this
> on a VM is because the install is so convoluted you are bound to mess up
> somewhere and the ability to snapshot back and forth is price.
>
> I would not recommend to anyone installing this on their desktop without
> trying it out on a VM.
>
> Anyway, having installed it and got the test forms and reports working,
> the question is do to do with developers machines? Do they all need Wb
> Logic Server and Portal and SSO to be able to run forms and reports
> builder? Even at 4Gb the machine struggles. What is the least resource
> hungry way of installing a 11g Forms/Reports builder setup on Windows?
>

Install one server to run the forms and reports in development. With Whinedoze your developers would only need the Builder, and transfer their "product" to the server for testing. Received on Sat Dec 11 2010 - 11:30:55 CET