New to Forms, Exp'd w/ Portals

So a newbie question because I've never touched Oracle Forms. My boss wants to know what it takes to move the 80+ Oracle forms we have to Oracle Portal.
It seems clear that the first step is the port the Oracle Forms to some thing that is availalble over HTTP. There must be several ways of doing this. I dont' know where to start, where to go, or what to tell him. I figure it is a common enough problem that there is a straight forward methodology and/or tool sets that people use.
Any guidance is appreciated.
TIA
Dan'l

Danl,
check out the Forms migration center that is accessible from otn.oracle.com/products/forms. here you find all teh information required to run Forms from a http based URL. I recommend to call Forms from a link in Oracle Portal instead of implementing it as a Portlet (which is possible). The reason is that Portal is a HTML frontend while Forms has a Java Applet as a frontend that takes longer to load.
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