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Oracle Forms 10g R2 Technical Information | |
| Make sure you check for whitepapers and information from earlier versions since many of them are still relevent to this release. You can find the links at the bottom of this page. | |
| Oracle Forms, Oracle Reports, Oracle Designer Statement of Direction 07-Sep-2004 | |
| Our statement of direction which outlines our strategy with Oracle Forms, Oracle Reports and Oracle Designer. | |
| Oracle Forms 10g Technical Overview | |
| High level overview of the new features we are introducing in the latest version of Oracle Forms. | |
| Forms Upgrade Reference 4-Aug-2004 | |
| Discusses the changes between the web only and older versions of the Forms product. Developers who are upgrading to Oracle Forms 10g should read this document before upgrading. (note this document is written specifically for Oracle9i Forms but is relevant to Oracle Forms 10g) | |
| Thinking about migration of Forms to Java or Apex? | |
Are you asking the question about migrating a Forms application? This paper written by Oracle Application Development Tools Product Management, describes Oracle's position on migration and outlines the challenges and the questions you need to ask if you are considering migrating Forms. This article first appeared in the ODTUG technical journal. 21-Jul-2009 | |
| Oracle Forms 10g Technical FAQ | |
| Covers the most frequently asked questions about running you Forms application on Oracle Application Server 10g. | |
| Community Whitepaper by Jacob Madsen | |
| Jacob Madsen from Brandsoft in Denmark has written a whitepaper about some very interesting integration with Java he did. Its available at the end of the link in the header. 26-Aug-2008 | |
| Oracle Forms and SOA: An Executive Summary 23-Mar-2007 | |
| An Executive Summary of Forms in an SOA world. | |
| Forms and SOA: The Hows and Whys | |
| The buzz around SOA is undeniable. But what is the impact and way forward for you as a Forms user? New! 9-Jun-2007 | |
| Integrating Forms with SOA | |
| This new whitepaper describes techniques for integrating Forms with a Service Oriented Architecture, SOA. 7-Jun-2007 | |
| Forms and BPEL Demo 8-Mar-2006 | |
| This demo shows how Forms can participate in a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) environment. It uses one of the standard samples that are supplied when you install Oracle BPEL Process Manager, which you can download from OTN. In this demo Forms will invoke a web service, and also communicate with Oracle BPEL Process Manager using the Java API. | |
| Calling a Web Service from Forms 10.1.2 4-Apr-2007 | |
| This how-to shows how you can call an external Web service from Oracle Forms 10.1.2 | |
| How to use Sun's plug-in with Forms 21-Aug-2008 | |
| This whitepaper describes how to use Sun's plug-in 1.4 or later with Forms version 10.1.2. | |
| Client Platform Statement of Direction 14-Feb-2007 | |
| Describes Oracle Corporation's statement of direction to support Oracle Forms 10g applications on multiple Java client platforms | |
| Summit Demo Application 26-Sep-2008 | |
| This demo application has been used by Oracle, partners and customers for many purposes. This version has been updated for Forms 10.1.2. | |
| Advanced Configuration of Oracle Forms 3-Feb-2006 | |
| This updated white paper explains some of the advanced techniques of configuring the Forms Server. | |
| JDAPI Documentation 21-Feb-2006 | |
| Zip file containing the Java documentation for the Java Development API which allows you programatically edit FMB files. | |
| Best practices when Developing Applications with Forms 10gR2 28-Feb-2006 | |
| This white paper describes some of the best practices used when developing applications with Forms 10gR2 | |
| Oracle Forms and J2EE: A Business Case for Application Development | |
| Are you questioning how Oracle Forms and J2EE fit together? Are you considering how you should be developing your applications? This paper uses a business to answer all your questions. | |
| Oracle Forms and J2EE- Migrating? | |
| Are you being asked about migrating Forms applications to J2EE? Read this paper. | |
| A new Look and Feel for Oracle Forms ZIP 5-Apr-2007 | |
| This community white paper shows how you can define the look of your Forms application from a CSS file. | |
| Secure Web.Show_Document calls to Oracle Reports 22-Dec-2008 | |
| Using Web.Show_Document() requires customers to expose the userid parameter in the Reports request URL. Exposing this information may violate your security policies This Whitepaper explains, for Forms and Reports 9i/10g, how to use a Java Bean in Forms to secure Reports called by Web.Show_Document(). The source code can be downloaded from this zip file. A JAR file with everything compiled against 10.1.2.0.2 and against 10.1.2.3 is available in this zip file. | |
| Setting up SSO with SSL 27-Mar-2009 | |
| This whitepaper, written by Oracle Customer Support, explains how to set up SSO when using SSL. | |