From Forms Product Management - 10g Capacity Planning Guide

We have published a capacity planning guide for Oracle Forms; now available from otn.oracle.com/products/forms.
Regards
Grant Ronald
Forms Product Management

Nice - thanks!

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From Forms Product Management - How many users can my Forms App run??

A question we often receive on the OTN list is how may users can
your Forms application cope with? - To help you plan and
understand how a Forms application scales, we have completed a
new white paper called "Oracle Forms Services Release 6i Capacity
Planning Guide". Please go to
http://otn.oracle.com/products/forms/pdf/6iscalability.pdf.
In this paper we discuss how you can load test your application,
how to design realistic scenarios and documents Oracle's own
scalability testing of Oracle Forms.
This paper is a valuable source of information for those decision
makers who need to deploy performant and scalable Forms
applications.
Regards
Grant Ronald
Forms Product Management

This is a very useful piece of information however the link
terminated with a period and a space which allow browsers to
display error page, to view this document remove the trailing
space and period or click the corrected link below.
Thanks you Oracle Forms Group!!!
http://otn.oracle.com/products/forms/pdf/6iscalability.pdf

Announcement from Forms Product Management - new Forms Demos/Samples

The Forms Product Management team are please to announce our new Forms Sample Code/Demo page
http://otn.oracle.com/sample_code/products/forms/content.html
We have included demos and sample code for topics which generate alot of questions on OTN.
For example,
When deploying Forms on the web, how can I load files from the client machine?
How do I call Java from Forms?
The new features of Oracle9i Forms
Can I add spell checking to my Forms application?
These demos are created by the Product Managers to show you, not only the features, but the steps involved to do it yourself.
It's like having your own tutorial from the Forms Product Managers!!!
We hope this helps and as always, please let us know if you have any comments.
Regards
Forms Product Management Team

FORMS 9i RELEASE DATE : End of year 2001
Date: Oct 8, 2001 09:01 PT
Towards the end of this year.
Regards
Grant Ronald
Forms Product Management
Connect dialog - JDBC Database string
Shay Shmelzer
Date : Jul 19, 2001 09:40 PT
Expect it towards the end of this year.
re:re:ifs mail classes (please help)

From Forms Product Management - New Forms Articles on OTN

The Forms Product Management team are proud to announce that we
have been running a number of daily features which highlight some
of the great features of Oracle Forms. Just to keep to updated
on these features, the current list of published articles are:
6i Features
The new Forms Listener Servlet Architecture
http://otn.oracle.com/products/ias/daily/sept28.html
Using Single Sign-On in Forms6i
http://otn.oracle.com/products/ias/daily/oct26.html
Forms 6i Reports Integration
http://otn.oracle.com/products/ias/daily/oct24.html
Forms Java Importer
http://otn.oracle.com/products/ias/daily/oct15.html
Oracle9iAS Forms Services: Multiple Client Platform Support
http://otn.oracle.com/products/ias/daily/oct10.html
Oracle9iAS Forms Services: Forms Integration with Oracle SCM
http://otn.oracle.com/products/ias/daily/oct30.html
9i Features
Dynamic Bean Manager
http://otn.oracle.com/products/ias/daily/nov07.html
Oracle9iAS Forms Services: New Features in Release 9i
http://otn.oracle.com/products/ias/daily/nov19.html
We hope that this information helps keep you informed and may
serve as a reminder to the wealth of tools to aid you in
developing Forms application.
As always, we appreciate your feedback on this, or any other
matters.
Best Regards
Grant Ronald
Forms Product Management

We do not have a beta/pre-prodcution release of Forms9i
available for download, however the production version should be
available early in the new year.
Regards
Grant
Forms Product Management

Announcement from Forms Product Management

We often get asked about "real" customers who are deploying "real" Forms applications. In order to give you some examples,
we have a customer testimonials page which documents their success with Forms.
For example, on the Forms OTN page we have highlighted Metro who have gone live with 4,000 concurrent Forms users.
http://www.oracle.com/ip/develop/ids/customers/metro.html
You can find our more if you visit
http://www.oracle.com/ip/develop/ids/customers/index.html
Regards
Grant Ronald
Forms Product Management

FORMS 9i RELEASE DATE : End of year 2001
Date: Oct 8, 2001 09:01 PT
Towards the end of this year.
Regards
Grant Ronald
Forms Product Management
Connect dialog - JDBC Database string
Shay Shmelzer
Date : Jul 19, 2001 09:40 PT
Expect it towards the end of this year.
re:re:ifs mail classes (please help)

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 Management

Oracle 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

From Forms Product Management - Oracle Forms 10g Demos

We have released the Oracle Forms 10g demos which are now available on OTN.
Please go to otn.oracle.com/products/forms and click on the top news item.
Please let us know if you have any comments.
Regards
Grant Ronald
Forms Product Management

Oracle 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

From Forms Product Management - Oracle Application Server 10g for Windows

I've updated http://otn.oracle.com/products/forms with links to the Oracle Application Server 10g and Oracle Developer Suite 10g for Windows (which has just be released).
You can check out the new features this version of the product bring for Forms at:
http://otn.oracle.com/products/forms/pdf/10g/frm10gnewfeatures.pdf
Regards
Grant Ronald
Forms Product Management

Nice - thanks!

From Forms Product Management - Using Enterprise Manager

I have just posted a new viewlet which shows the Enterprise Manager features in 10g. If you have not used EM before its a great high level demo which shows you how yuo can manage your Forms applications from a console. For those already familiar with EM you will be able to check out some of the new work we have done in integrating Forms and EM.
If you go to http://otn.oracle.com/products/forms you can see the feature on the news list.
Thanks
Grant Ronald
Forms Product Management

Grant
I don't think you'll get too many replies. I expect most people here are either committed to using Web Forms already (and so don't need this functionality) or else are still in client-server mode (and so don't understand what you asking).
We are just in the process of migrating from Forms4.5 to 9i (I'm in the WebUtil beta) and we are still finding out all sorts of non-obvious things about web-deployment - don't get me started on how awful the whole GIF thing is! So I'm not really qualified to have an opinion about Webstart. I only have the vaguest idea what it does and I'm not sure I want to read up about it just so I can tell you whether to go ahead with it.
What I will say is this:
(1) Anything that makes 9i Forms more like a client-server experience for the users would be a good thing, bceause it would minimise the shock of transition.
(2) Choice is a good thing. Your recent experience of developers' spleen over the removal of client-server should tell you that people respond well to being given options and badly to having them removed.
(3) If I've correctly understood Haris Peco in their second point we could get rid of O9iAS and that would be flipping marvellous for everybody (except possibly the VP in charge of O9iAS Sales :P).
My tuppence ha'penny worth.
Cheers, APC

From Forms Product Management - Forms/J2EE Article in Oracle Magazine

Oracle Magazine have published a great article explaining how Forms and J2EE are providing complementary technologies. Read how one of our customer has found a good balance in building their business applications.
Link on otn.oracle.com/products/forms
Regards
Grant Ronald
Forms Product Management

I wonder if it is really difficult for Oracle to make easy the switch from Oracle Forms to Jdeveloper... ADF is a pretty nice thing... but it's not so good as Forms are in RAD for databases!
The best project from Oracle I knew about making Forms developers build lightweight web applications was Cherokee Project... That was a pretty nice project that was abandoned in favour of the new ruler... JAVA and Jdev! With the goals of project Cherokee achieved any Oracle Form developer would build that kind of apps... but not with current JDEV 10G!
I really feel that I am a "pl/sql and forms" developer, and that java makes me write too much code for something i would use one code line in forms or sometimes don't need at all to code! CMiC developers think the same! It's really slower to develop for J2EE! I switch from VB and Delphi to Forms cause Forms is the only truth RAD for database applications! And as I said lately in another posts I feel "pression" to move to another place than forms... Pression is several ways, either the new pricetag for AS EE or AS Forms only, either technological pression!
So as explained in "A Forms Break" article (http://www.oracle.com/technology/oramag/oracle/05-jan/o15form.html) the pression is there... They had 20 Forms developers, and now they just have 10, and have 10 Jdev developers! 6 here converted from forms to J2EE... and the others? That's one kind of pression that's made and that's real! They have to move from Forms to J2EE, cause if they don't... they'll get fired one day!
The best of the best "App Server" i know is Oracle AS... but it's also the most expensive one for people that develop database applications. When i create an application in Delphi my customers don't have to pay â¬20000 for licensing any app server... so it's really too much for small and middle size company's.
This article is useful to see and understand the SOD of Oracle in a global strategy and not from one perspective only... like Forms SOD perspective. I think Oracle Forms will end as a core product between 2008 and 2010. Will Oracle melt with success Oracle Forms Developers in Jdev with no pain? I believe that no more than 50% oracle developers will do it... Others will go to other technologies... most of them opensource like XUL or GnuE (Forms,Reports).
So, that's my point of view... and of course it's not the point of view of all Forms developers.
JR

From Forms Product Management - Free Forms Upgrade Workshops

We are pleased to annouce more dates for the Forms upgrade to the web workshops. If you are considering moving your client/server application to the web come to these events and hear directly from Oracle's Product Management team about the benefits and the tips and techniques.
Details at otn.oracle.com/products/forms
Regards
Grant Ronald
Forms Product Management

I still get the 404 error.
I go to http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/forms/index.html then follow the link titled "Free Oracle Forms Upgrade Workshops" which leads to http://www.oracle.com/go/?&Src=3581382&Act=4
That URL results in a 404 error :-(
PS. I just tested it using MS Internet Explorer and then it seems to work (FireFox gives me the 404 error)

From Forms Product Management - XP Support

As you know, Oracle is committed to Oracle Forms and is focusing its development, testing and certification resources on Oracle9i Forms, the latest release of the product, part of Oracle9i Application Server. Therefore, the certification of previous version of Oracle Forms (Forms 6i Client/Server) was not planned on recent versions of the Windows operating systems (Windows XP).
Given the feedback we received about this announcement from various user forums and from direct discussions with customers, we have undergone a review of our policy. This has primarily taken into account business cases provided by customers and partners, supporting the case for XP certification. As a result, we are now of the opinion, that even though many organizations have already scheduled their upgrade to Oracle9i Forms, the support and certification of Windows XP for Forms 6i Client/Server deployment appears, in the short term, to be necessary to ease the transition towards this upgrade.
As such, Oracle Forms 6i with Patchset 13 (6.0.8.22) and above will be certified for Client/Server deployment on Windows XP Professional. Windows XP will be the final major Windows operating system that Oracle will certify for Forms 6i Client/Server deployment. Of course, Oracle9i Forms Developer and the Oracle9i Forms Client (web based deployment) will continue to evolve and be certified on new operating systems as they are released.
Regards
Grant Ronald
Forms Product Management

Thanks Grant. I understand the part that Developer 6i Patch 13 is certified for client/server (builder and runtime) deployment on Windows XP. But, can you clarify on that if Developer 6i Patch 13 both Forms and Report runtime is deployed against 8.0.x, will this be certified? Does database version is 8.0.5 make any difference on whether certification is still in effect?
Thanks,
Viktor

From Forms Product Management -Using Forms and SCM

Oracle9i Forms and Oracle9i Software Configuration Manager (SCM) are integrated so that software configuration management can be done directly from Oracle9i Forms Developer.
Check out this new paper in the "NEWS" section on http://otn.oracle.com/products/forms
for more details.
Regards
Grant Ronald
Forms Product Management

Grant
I don't think you'll get too many replies. I expect most people here are either committed to using Web Forms already (and so don't need this functionality) or else are still in client-server mode (and so don't understand what you asking).
We are just in the process of migrating from Forms4.5 to 9i (I'm in the WebUtil beta) and we are still finding out all sorts of non-obvious things about web-deployment - don't get me started on how awful the whole GIF thing is! So I'm not really qualified to have an opinion about Webstart. I only have the vaguest idea what it does and I'm not sure I want to read up about it just so I can tell you whether to go ahead with it.
What I will say is this:
(1) Anything that makes 9i Forms more like a client-server experience for the users would be a good thing, bceause it would minimise the shock of transition.
(2) Choice is a good thing. Your recent experience of developers' spleen over the removal of client-server should tell you that people respond well to being given options and badly to having them removed.
(3) If I've correctly understood Haris Peco in their second point we could get rid of O9iAS and that would be flipping marvellous for everybody (except possibly the VP in charge of O9iAS Sales :P).
My tuppence ha'penny worth.
Cheers, APC

From Forms Product Management - New Forms/Reports install option

Oracle Product Management are pleased to announce the release of Forms/Reports Services only download and install option of Oracle Application Server 10g.
This provides an option to the EE to install those components related only to running Forms and Reports.
To download please go to http://otn.oracle.com/software/products/forms/ and please feel free to post any comments.
Regards
Grant Ronald
Forms Product Management

I did create a posting on OTN almost a year ago asking if/when 9iAS light version (forms/reports/graphs only) will be available at a reduced cost.
Oracle now announced (and also proved my claims that it was not a technical but marketing decision not to make forms/reports part of iAS a separate product) the separate download/install option for forms/reports services.
My original posting attracked more than 100 folks (including Shay, Frank and Grant) but was not fruitful to convince Oracle to make forms/reports services a separate product targeted for the small companies, who might not need/use the rest of the 9iAS framework. I believe, seeing one side of the coin and enforcing your opinion by ignoring the cry of many others (including many ODTUG members) is not a wise solution for your existing small business and niche market (using Oracle db and tools for very specific purposes such as simulations, etc on intranets - and operating under strict security protocols not to open up to internet) customers.
Grant and Shay repeatedly wrote on this forum and presented via whitepapers, etc. that forms/reports services are not fading away and it is a complementary solution to JDeveloper and emphasized that JDeveloper is not the replacement of forms/reports services. This news was very good for existing forms/reports developers.
Given that forms/reports services is now separately available, why not making Forms/Reports Designer and Forms/Reports services (only) part of iAS a separate product? as Oracle did the very same with JDeveloper?
regards

From Forms Product Management - New Diagnostic Document

I've just posted a new document on OTN which goes into great depth on how to debug errors, bugs and performance issues when deploying Forms on the Web.
The document is linked from the news section on http://otn.oracle.com/products/forms or you can look at all of the related papers by clicking to view the 9i papers.
As always, we are keen to hear your feedback.
Thanks
Grant Ronald
Forms Product Management

Grant...can you also tell us if you expect to release a pre-904 webutil release?
And where can we log errors about webutil beta, since it's not officially supported? I'd like to log a bug named in a previous post of me: webutil: webutil_file.file_open_dialog with filter doesn't work as expected

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