1. Presenter
Zubair Ali

2.  About an Instructor
 History of Forms Evolvement/Versioning
 About Fusion Middleware Technology Stack
 Oracle SOD
 Little about Architecture
 Modernization in detail
 Q&A

3.  Name: Zubair Ali
 Companies:
 Sapphire Consulting Services (Team Lead)
www.sapphirecs.net
 Meteortechs: Consulting and Trainings (Director Technologies)
www.meteortechs.com
 Work Experience: 07 Years
 Expertise: Oracle Technologies
 SQL, PLSQL, Forms, Reports, OAF/ADF, Workflow Builder, Bi Publisher, OBIEE, Oracle SOA Suit
Peoplesoft Technologies
 Application Designer, PeopleTools, SQR, SAIP, Web Services
Google Andoird Applications
 Free lance working over Android applications
Contact
Email ID: zubair648@gmail.com
Skype ID: zubair..ali
Cell: 0333-3223603 ( 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm)
Facebook ID: zubair648

4. Name Version (*1) Database Character/GUI Comments
IAF (1981/83) 2 Character No IDE
FastForms+IAG 4 Character
SQL*Forms (1986/87) 2 5 Character
New IDE, No PLSQL, User
SQL*Forms (1987) 2.3 5 Character Exits, INP ASCII File, FRM
Runtime File (1987)
Major Rewrite, New IDE,
SQL*Forms (1990) 3 6 Character PLSQL, X Support, Generate
code to enforce constraints
Major Rewrite, New IDE,
FMB source binary file, FMX
Runtime, optimized for
Oracle Forms (1993) 4.0 6-7 GUI / Character
Client-Server. New interface
is slow, buggy and not
popular with client base.
Major Rewrite, New IDE
based on Object Navigator &
Property Sheets. Good
release, fast, popular with
client base. Oracle wanted
Oracle Forms (1994) 4.5 7 GUI / Character customers to upgrade from v4
quickly because v4 was very
buggy and Oracle was
contracted to support v4 for a
period of time for some large,
important customers.

5. Name Version (*1) Database Character/GUI Comments
Oracle Forms (1994) 5 7 GUI / Character
Forms Server / Web Forms
introduced. Client-Server still
available and used by most
Oracle Forms (1996) 6 8 GUI / Character
clients. Forms Server mode is
slow, buggy and uses a lot of
memory per session.
Oracle Forms (1996) 6i Version Summary
8 GUI / Character
Client-Server runtime
removed leaving Forms
Server (Web Interface) as
only runtime option. Major
Oracle Forms (2002) 9i (*2) 9i GUI
Changes at the Server Level,
more effective
communication between user
browser and the server.
This is a Forms 9 release
(9.0.4.0.19). Renamed
externally to indicate support
for 10g database. Menu-Help-
Oracle Forms (2003) 10g 10g GUI
About displays v9.0.4.0.19.
Not forward compatible with
10gr2 (can't open 10gr2 forms
in 10g/904)
version 10.1.2.0.2 - registry
home key moved. Max
Oracle Forms (2005) 10gR2 10gR2 GUI
NUMBER length reduced
from 40 to 38
Oracle Forms (2010) 11g 11g GUI External Events, JavaScript [1]
Oracle Access Manager
Integration, Performance and
Oracle Forms (2011) 11gR2 11gR2 GUI
Monitoring, Real User
Experience Interaction [2]
http://technology.amis.nl/2011/12/11/the-future-of-forms-is-forms-and-some-friends-ukoug-2011-with-grant-ronald/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oracle_Forms

6.  http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/middleware/downloads/fusion-downloads-1714164.html
•AIA Foundation Pack •Hyperion Performance Management and BI
•BPEL Process Manager •Identity Management
•Business Activity Monitoring •Internet Application Server 10g and Components
•Business Intelligence Suite EE •JRockit
•Business Intelligence Applications •Outside In Technology
•Business Intelligence Publisher •Portal
•Business Process Analysis Suite •Presence
•Business Process Management •Real-Time Decisions
•Coherence •Service Bus
•Communications Application Server •Service Bus for Financial Services
•Complex Event Processing •Service Registry
•Content Management SDK •SOA Suite
•Crystal Ball •Tuxedo
•Data Integrator and Suite •Web Services Manager
•Discoverer •Web Tier
•Enterprise Repository •WebCenter Content
•Entitlements Server •WebCenter Portal
•Event-Driven Architecture Suite •WebCenter Sites
•Forms & Reports Services •WebLogic Integration
•GlassFish Server •WebLogic Operations Control
•GoldenGate •WebLogic Server 12c

7.  toolssod-3-129969.pdf
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/issue-archive/2010/toolssod-3-129969.pdf
Google: toolssod-3-129969.pdf
What Oracle say:
 The cost of shifting current and legacy applications into ADF
is huge, so don’t worry about existing application just shift
on latest release of Oracle Forms, so companies can avail
latest benefits.
 Build New applications in ADF
 Develop new reports using BI Publisher EE
 Both can run on Weblogic Fusion Middleware AS.

8.  Oracle Forms and Reports, components of Oracle Fusion
Middleware, are Oracle's long established technologies
 These are used to design and build enterprise applications quickly
and efficiently
 Oracle remains committed to the development of these
technologies and to their future release as components of the
Oracle platform
 Oracle Forms and Reports enables you to leverage your existing
investment by easily upgrading and integrating existing Oracle
Forms and Reports applications to 11g to take advantage of web
technologies and service oriented architectures (SOA)

9.  Oracle’s Classic Development Tools
 Oracle Designer
 Oracle Forms
 Oracle Reports
 PL/SQL
 Java Development Tools
 Application Development Framework, (Oracle ADF)
 Oracle Business Intelligence Publisher (BI Publisher)

10.  Standards-based environment
 Oracle ADF provide a set of tools and technologies
 Application delivery channels
 Mobile
 Web Services or Web2.0,
 Oracle’s own Technologies

11.  Extensive business rules or UI control logic in the application itself
 Need integration with and access to Fusion Applications or other 3rd
party applications
 Need access to features provided by Oracle Fusion Middleware,
such as BPM, BIP, WebCenter, and SOA
 For larger scale deployments where most of the processing time is
in the application, and scalability is achieved by adding multiple
middle tiers
 General preference to use Java/JEE technologies
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/developer-tools/forms/documentation/formsmigration133693.pdf

12.  IBM Global Business Services  Agha Khan Hospitals
 Inbox  Gul Ahmed Textile
 UBL  Mazars Consulting
 Oracle Pakistan  Al-KHair University
 Sidaat  Pakistan Revenue Automation Company
 System Ltd  Paksitan Railway
 Mobilink  Karachi International Terminal
 Telenor  KESC
 Sapphire Consulting  SSGC
 TeraData  Pakistan Oil Lts
 TPS Pakistan private Ltd  National Refineries
 Lucky Group  OMV Pakistan
 Tata Group  Ufone
 IAmplify Consulting  MOL Pakistan
 Systems Ltd  Askari Bank
 Jaffer Brothers  Habib Oil Mills
 A.F.Ferguson  PizzaHut
 Soorty Textile  Satcom
 Tapal  Morgan Chemicals
 Unilever Pakistan  CDC
 Reckkit Benkiser  State Bank of Pakistan
 Hilal Confectionery Pvt. Limited  Pakistan Printing Press
 InfoTech Private Limited  Sindh Texation and Excise
 DWP Technologies  Nadra Paksitan
 Millennium Softwares (pvt) LTD  FOURGEN Information Systems (Pvt) Ltd
 Ebrahim Khalil Kanoo  Atlas Engineering Ltd
 Artistic Textile  Pak Suzuki
 Star Trading and Services  Meezan Bank
 Adamjee Insurance  Fazal Textile
 Shan Foods  ….

14.  Integrate Forms in SOA & BPM Environment
 Embed Forms in WEB 2.0 –UI Integration with ADF, and others modern Web
technologies
 Render Forms to new platforms (render existing forms as they are to new
platform such as mobile browsers)
 Migrate Forms to ADF, JHeadStart
 Pluggable Java Components PJC and Java Beans, third party widgets

15. Grant Ronald is a senior group product manager
working for Oracle’s Application Development Tools
group responsible for Forms and JDeveloper where
he has a focus on opening up the Java platform to
Oracle’s current install base. Grant joined Oracle in
1997, working in Oracle support, where he headed
up the Forms/Reports/Discoverer team responsible
for the support of the local Oracle Support Centres
throughout Europe, the Middle East, and Africa.
White Paper (459564_en-gb)

19.  F:OutlinesForms11g White PapersForms Look and
Feel - Dynamic Table-block.avi

20.  community-paper-forms-look-and-feel-131989
 griffithswaite-129182
 odtugtools-article-forms-modernizat-134923
 randstad-group-belux-1-forms-ss-367199

21. External Events.
This new feature is, in essence, support for the feature
called Advanced Queuing (or AQ) available in all
editions of the Oracle Database since 8i. AQ is a very
powerful and robust asynchronous event solution. This
feature brings the possibility to communicate with a
Forms module from outside of Forms.

22.  WHEN-EVENT-RAISE
 Client Refresh (MAX_EVENT_WAIT)
 DBMS_AQ (Publish External Events)
 Variable := Get_event_object_property(‘myCustomEvent,EVENT_PAYLOAD)

23. Oracle Forms can now subscribe and react to external
events that are published to the database's Advanced
Queuing (AQ) feature. Since many other technologies
can publish events to AQ (examples include JMS and
BPEL), Forms can now interact with those technologies
in an asynchronous manner. Your Oracle Forms
applications can react to events outside Forms, as well as
interact with other Forms applications.

24. JavaScript.
With the help of this new feature Forms can invoke
JavaScript code available in the page from which the
Forms applet resides The reverse is also possible, that is
you can call into Forms from JavaScript..

25.  WEB.JAVASCRIPT_EVAL_EXPR
WEB.JAVASCRIPT_EVAL_EXPR, is a procedure which takes two arguments: an expression and a target,
both of data type varchar2.
 WEB.JAVASCRIPT_EVAL_FUNCTION
is a function and returns a varchar2 value. This call can be used to create a JavaScript function on-the-fly
by passing in text that is legal JavaScript in the context in which the Forms applet executes.

26. New Enterprise Manager User interface and
functionality.
Oracle Forms' support for EM has been improved with a
new user interface and new features. It's now possible to
correlate a specific Forms session's activities with
activities seen in the database. A function that associates
a Forms instance with a SSO instance has also been
added.

27. Events in Pluggable Java Components.
Oracle Forms support for Pluggable Java Components
(or PJC) has been augmented by adding support for
dispatching events to the Forms server in PJC code.

28.  Tracing improvements.
The tracing present in Oracle Forms can now log the
names of called PL/SQL functions and procedures and
the names, types and values of parameters used in those
calls.

29. Oracle Diagnostic Logging.
Support for Oracle's standardized logging architecture is
at the heart of this new feature.

30.  TNS File Locations
 Running Weblogic from commands
 Weblogic GUI Briefing
 Forms and Report Management in Weblogic
 Important Locations and Directory Structures
 Create Form
 Run Form from Builder
 Run Form as an application
 Run Report from Form
 Configuration of Report Server

31. Requirement and Specifications to install OF&R
http://docs.oracle.com/html/E25460_01/r2_fr_requirem
ents.htm
Complete Documentation
http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E24269_01/index.htm
Forms Demo and Tools overview
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/developer-
tools/forms/overview/index.html

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