Migrate Oracle Forms 4.5 to APEX

Hi Gurus,
We are in the process of migrating Oracle Forms 4.5 to Oracle APEX 3.2.1. In order to use the Forms to XML conversion tool, they say the Form version should be at least 6i.
I would be more grateful if somebody can get me Forms 4.5 to 6 or 9 migration guide and if possible some examples, so that I can proceed with this migration.
Any help on this would be very much appreciated.
Thanks and Regards,

Oracle supports there tools because there are often needs to move technologies. What made Forms the right choice 10 years ago may not mean it is the right choice now. Hence, it might make sense to switch. Any tool which can take you some of the way can be a help. However, we also have to be realistic on what these tools can do.
If you are aware that a tool takes you to a solution which is less than optimal than if you had designed it from scratch but its good enough for you then fine. If thats what you want and the tool does it for you then go for it.
My experience, and I'm fortunate to have worked with hundreds of Forms customers/projects is that the hype/excitement sometimes has to be balanced with some practical real world experience.
Even moving PL/SQL from Forms into the database is a difficult task and thats the same language.

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