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.
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)
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.
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
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.
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.
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.