Re: Options for deploying Forms in 9iAS

Lets suppose you are in client server, and to avoid installation on each client you simply put all your files (fmx, mmx, plls and the Forms runtime) on a file server in the main office. You remote clients are accessing these files over the WAN.

Each time you start running your application you'll download the runtime of Forms to the client memory over the WAN, then each FMX will be downloaded to the client. If you look at the size of an FMB it will probably be somewhere between 300k-2M depending on how many objects you got there.
Now if you look at the download of Forms on the Web when you start out a Form you only pass metadata on the dispalyed item (usually aroun 20-30k) much less.

Even if you install all your files and runtime on every client, then while you work in your Forms you mainly do a lot of network from the Forms runtime to the database. (Checking values, inserting values etc).
In C/S it will go over the WAN to/from your client. On the Web the runtime is on the application server which is near the database on a LAN (and sometimes on the same computer). Therefor much less network on the WAN.

For some more proofpoints:
http://otn.oracle.com/products/forms/pdf/256631.pdf Received on Mon May 19 2003 - 18:28:02 CEST