I have some Oracle Forms based applications. I'd like to convert them
to Java
(JFC). I think that's possible to create a program to do some
automatic
convertion from Oracle Forms to Java.
The basic block behavior is relative easy to do. You just have query,
delete, update, insert and post method. The page is not so difficult
as well; I can see converting all forms and block definition to a XML
file that will direct some generic objects written in Java.
Other issue is to convert the PL/SQL code. We have a grammar for
PL/SQL, write a parser and generate the correspondent Java code. This
java code can be like one .class per Trigger that will be registred
like listeners for the generic block object, defined in the XML file I
wrote above.
I can imagine that such kind of tool can not only convert but also
create a easy to use Java Framework for creating that simple
insert/delete/update screens, like Forms does very well, but in Java,
running in every Browser, no Forms Server, no 1,000s of US$, etc.
Do somebody here know such kind of tool? If such tool doesn't exist,
what about to start such tool, creating a group to develop it arround
the world?
Best Regards,
Carlos Netto
Software Design
