Re: Converting Forms 4.5 app to Oracle Web Server

It really is quite straightforward, with the caveats as id'd in the book (no MDI, etc) and as outlined below. The process involves:

1. Given an fmb, one must generate an fmx on the web server platform
2. (assuming static HTML setup), create an HTML file which references the gen'd file, supplying a name and password as well (see the example in ORACLE_HOME/forms45/html)
3. with the web server and forms server running, enter the URL for the HTML doc from above. This will cause a java applet to be downloaded and executed on your client machine. Depending on your local CPU, this may take between 2 and 15 minutes!
4. Once loaded, again, depending on your local CPU, the resulting form will perform at a rate somewhere between "tolerable" and "totally unacceptable".

I spent several weeks with this env (using Solaris 2.5.1, netscape 3.0, and Dev/2K 1.6), and
have since ditched it, given (3) and (4) in our env. Hope your mileage is better!

HTH, Alan

Liam McCauley wrote:

> I am investigating the viability and effort involved in converting an
> Oracle Forms 4.5 application to Oracle Web Server. Has anyone tried
> this, or done any investigation into it?
>
> Thanks,
> Liam
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Received on Mon May 11 1998 - 12:20:27 CEST