Re: Forms - I want to understand

Hello,

  I'm no expert, but here is my understanding.....Originally, Oracle Forms was a character-mode development tool called SQL*Forms. When Oracle started moving along the GUI path, they retained within Oracle Forms the capability to handle character-mode environments. Even today's latest version of Oracle Developer (which includes Forms and Reports) can be used to run character-mode applications. One important point is that the EXACT SAME Form can be run in both GUI and character-mode (provided one adheres to a few simple design rules during the Form module development). The environmental differences are handled in the runtime engines (Forms interpreters) - not the Forms themselves. On UNIX platforms, for example, where both character-mode and GUI are commonly used, Oracle provides 2 runtime engines with Oracle Forms - a character-mode version and a GUI client/server version. With Oracle Developer Server, there is even a third runtime engine for delivering Forms over the Web. This Web runtime engine is actually comprised of 2 pieces - a Forms server and listener that resides on a Web server machine and a Java client applet that is downloaded to browsers and provides the user interface functionality of the Form. I've never used Oracle Application, so I cannot really address your questions about integration with Oracle Forms, but presumably, this is straightforward. Hope this clears things up a bit.

Cary

In article <733i1a$ad3$1_at_nnrp1.dejanews.com>,   azhan98_at_tm.net.my wrote:
> Hi again,
>
> 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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