Forms 4.5 Migration to Oracle Forms 10g
Hi All,
I want to know abt migration steps i.e. i 'm doing migration of Oracle Forms 4.5 to Oracle Forms 10g. Then existing forms is on Windows NT based environment and the database is Oracle 8.
What is the better way to approach this issue? Whether, directly open the existing Forms into Oracle Forms 10g or first open the form into Forms 6i and then after 10g?
Tell me the System Specification.... Database version.... Which Application Server is suitable.... And whether the Oracle 9i database possible for Forms 10g or not.
Pls Give me solution.
Thanks
What is the better way to approach this issue?
Whether, directly open the existing Forms into Oracle
Forms 10g or first open the form into Forms 6i and
then after 10g?As Grant said:
4.5 to 10g (strictly speaking is not supported) but should work ok - Generally speaking you just open your Forms in the 10g builder and compile. You should check out otn.oracle.com/formsupgrade which gives you some good pointers including the Forms built-in procedures that have be desupported and removed from the product.
4.5 -> 6i -> 10g was the supported route (but even 6i is desupported now).
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Tell me the System Specification.... Database
version.... Which Application Server is suitable....
And whether the Oracle 9i database possible for Forms
10g or not.OAS 10gR2, DB 9i is good.
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InputStream is;
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char ETX = 3;
char EOT = 4;
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String transactionNumber = "";
String batchNumber = "";
String transactionDate = "";
String transactionTime = "";
String transactionAmount = "";
String cardDataSource = "";
String numberCustomerCard = "";
String expirationDate = "";
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String merchandId = "";
String companyName = "";
String sequentialNumber ="";
String errorDescription;
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& !getTransactionType().equalsIgnoreCase("VOID")
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serialPort.notifyOnDataAvailable(true);
serialPort.notifyOnOutputEmpty(true);
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is = serialPort.getInputStream();
break;
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if (this.mHandler != null)
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dispatchCustomEvent(ce);
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while (true)
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System.out.println("start phase");
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System.out.println("--> SALE send message to the pos terminal");
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+ FS + "+0" + FS + "978" + FS + FS + FS + FS + FS
+ FS + FS + ETX);
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dataValue = "";
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dataValue += new String(readBuffer, 0, numBytes, "ASCII");
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System.out.println("->first byte: " +
dataValue.getBytes()[0]);
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dataValue.getBytes().length);
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transactionProcessed = dv.substring(1, 3);
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catch(Exception ex)
System.err.println("Execute Exception>> " + ex.toString());
this.showError(res.getProperty("s_dlg_err_title"),res.getProperty("s_gen_exception"));
return false;
return false;
* Display error message inside oracle form
* @param title
* @param exceptionString
private void showError(String title, String exceptionString) {
JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(this, exceptionString, title, 0);
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From Forms Product Management - Success of Oracle Forms
The Forms Product Management team are pleased to announce we have posted a new paper on OTN which tells you
about the success of Oracle Forms.
If you want to find out who is using Forms, the kind of applications that are best targetted by Forms, and what is the future
of Oracle Forms then please go to:
http://otn.oracle.com/products/forms/htdocs/Forms_Success/forms_success.html
As, always, we welcome your feedback.
Regards
Grant Ronald
Forms Product ManagementOracle Forms is quit impressive as both a client/server and web-based solution. I have yet to see an application run over the web the way Oracle Forms does. It appears as a client/server application, except it's completely web-based.
That's quite amazing, however, I have found that the rich interface and the sophistication of running Forms over the web comes with a big cost. The 8MB Jinitiator download turns a lot of people off.
What I'm really wondering is if there is anyone out there who is using Oracle Forms as a web solution ?
Thanks for your time.
Best Regards,
Bob Mazzo -
Migrating an Oracle Forms 4.5 application from Windows Server 2000 to 2003
We are upgrading a number of servers from Windows Server 2000 to Windows Server 2003 (Standard Edition, R2). Can we re-install Forms 4.5 on 2003 and what is involved. If not, what can we do.
Kind regards,
MalcolmForms 4.5 has been desupported way before Windows 2003 was ever available. So, you can be sure that Forms 4.5 is not supported on Windows 2003. You could give it a try, but you could very well run into problems.
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Migrating Oracle forms and reports from 6i to 10g Application server on Uni
HI Guys,
We are migrating from Oracle forms and reports 6i to 10g.
We will be having application server on Unix box.
I understand following will be the changes i will have to do in this respect -
1. Fonts are to be revisited only Java fonts are supported.
2. Obsolete items, function calls, triggers are to be removed.
My question is since this application can be cross platform application,
Can anyone provide me with changes that I will have to do with configuration files like -
1. Formsweb.cfg,
2. forms.conf
3. default.env
4. registry.dat
Keeping in mind that the application server will be on unix box.
Thanks,
Av.Java fonts are only supported for the Forms version.
You can use your own fonts for Reports however, there is some legwork to do this. I know because I just went through it.
If you will only being using the PDF output (which for me replaced the Preview mode that existed in 6i), then you have to install the TTF for the missing font, an AFM (use the ttf2pt1 utility to generate the AFM file, but make sure you remove the AFM extension when moving it to Unix). You'll want to use the PDF Subset in the uifont.ali (which exists under the ORACLE_HOME/guicommon/tk/admin directory and add the line underneath the PDF Subset "Font Family Name"="TTF Font Name" The font family name is found when you open the AFM file in textpad or wordpad for the font you generated. This is what you enter. The TTF Font Name is the name the TTF font. You'll have to restart Reports Server after this.
If printing to the printer directly is an option you must have, I will tell you it does not work in Linux right now. You can print to the printer but if the font doesn't exist on the internal memory of the printer, it won't work. There are 3rd party utilities like ORARRP and PDFPrint that can take care of this but, each has its own limitations. The one thing I found with ORARRP is if you generate a Report with an RRPA file extension and open it on Windows, it works great, the printer dialog comes up asking you what printer you want to print too. However, if you call this in Linux/Unix with the filename, it brings it up in the web browser but doesn't prompt you for your printer to print too automatically. So, for me, it's a show stopper. My only other option is to install the fonts on the printer that are missing.
As for the files you want to change, you'll obviously have to make changes to the formsweb.cfg, default.env, forms.conf. I have to modify the reports.sh for some PL/SQL attached libraries to make sure it picks them up. I did have to modify Registry.dat.
There is alot of work but mainly forms wasn't too bad, unless you had fonts that weren't supported. Usually there is another font that you can use to replace the old one but you have to know which fonts exists on the server and try all the keys on the keyboard to find the corresponding keystroke.
Hope this helps.
Chris -
How to Migrate Oracle Forms 4.5 to Forms 10g
Hi All,
I want to know abt migration steps i.e. i 'm doing migration of Oracle Forms 4.5 to Oracle Forms 10g. Then existing forms is on Windows xx and the database is Oracle 8.
What is the better way to approach this issue? Whether, directly open the existing Forms into Oracle Forms 10g or first open the form into Forms 6i and then after 10g?
Tell me the System Specification.... Database version.... Which Application Server is suitable.... And whether the Oracle 9i database possible for Forms 10g or not.
Pls Give me solution.
Thanks.For Forms Upgrade information I would firstly checkout the Forms Upgrade Center. If you don't find your answer there I would post your question to the Forms
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