I want to share my first impression of ADF and I am sure everyone with Oracle Forms background will feel same. I have been working in oracle Forms and Reports for more than five year.  I have development experience in Oracle Developer 6i/9i/10g and Forms, Reports 11g. After reading Oracle’s Statement of Direction for Forms and reports, I decided to learn ADF for web-based application development. (more…)

When  client accesses Forms application for the first time, java run-time classes bundled in JAR files are downloaded to client JRE cache.  These files include frmall.jar, frmwebutil.jar and jacob.jar. Cumulative size of these files is more than 2mb. (more…)

Key mapping or key binding defines how an application should respond when mapped key is typed. Usually application executes some function in repose. For example in Forms 6i, when user types F9, List of value is displayed to the user. It means that key F9 is mapped to function “List of Values”. (more…)

If you have not configured reports with Oracle Single Sign-on, Oracle report server explicitly requires username and password when report is called using Web.Show_document(). Username and password is required in report calling URL, for example following method calls a reports using Web.Show_Documnet(). (more…)

At the time of installation Forms services 11g is configured to work with a specific version of  java run-time environment. You can find it in your FORMSWEB.CFG file. (more…)

If you are planning to install oracle Forms, Reports, Portal and Discoverer 11g, few core components including Oracle Internet Directory (OID), Oracle Single Sign-On (OSSO) (more…)

This article explains virtual Directory Mapping for Forms 11g version 11.1.1.1.0.  This mapped virtual directory can be used to deploy icons, images, HTML and other files. (more…)

I want to share my experience of installing Oracle Forms, Reports, Discoverer, Portal 11g with Oracle internet Directory 10g (10.1.4.3) and Oracle Single Sign-On 10g (10.1.4.3). I did it on windows server 2003 sp2. Under each step I have provided the names of installer packages which can be downloaded from oracle website. (more…)