Re: Oracle Forms On The Web

Jochen Van den Bossche wrote:
>
> Patrick Flahan wrote:
> >
> > I am currently working on a project where we will be using Forms as an
> > interim solution. I was wondering if anybody out there who has either
> > deployed or tried to deploy Forms on web could give me any feedback about
> > their experiences. I am trying to figure out if I should even bother pursing
> > this course. The forms would be deployed on a National intra-net with about
> > 2000 users total with about 1000 on line at peak times.
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> >
> > Patrick Flahan
> >
> > flahan_at_earthlink.net
>
> Forms Server lets you view the forms as a Java Applet in 'any' browser.
> I have done a test: One Intel Celeron with 96Mb ram running NT4 WKS, the
> Micro$oft web server (what's the name again?), the database (Oracle
> 7.3.4) and the Forms Server; One Pentium machine running NT4 WKS and
> Internet Explorer 4 as the client. The two machines were connected with
> a classic 10Mb/s Ethernet with hardly any other traffic.
> The conclusion was that it was simply too slooooooooowwwwwww!
> Maybe a real server will do the job better. Maybe the JInitiator plugin
> from Oracle (see Technet) will do a better job.
>
> PS: My biggest surprise: I couldn't get the forms running under
> Netscape!!
> If you do some tests youself, or start using this solution, let me know
> (THX)
I've seen demos (hands-on) with Netscape and the JInitiator Forms plugin. Performance looks fine and so do the forms themselves. But, the Form server (Application Server) must sit outside the firewall, since the socket connection back to the browser with the plugin is not a standard http socket. On a local LAN/corporate intranet, this may not be a problem at all. Unless you are willing to open up your firewall to a new socket, this is a bad problem for which Oracle has no solution at all. I too am wondering whether to go with this Forms stuff, or with JDeveloper... Received on Tue Dec 01 1998 - 02:25:08 CET