11g Forms application, building in ADF

We have a 10g system that we are converting to 11g. I know you can fire off Java and ADF forms from Forms and vice versa.
Wondered if anyone had any tutorials or info on how to do this.
Were new to Jdev/ADF but have had a forms system for 15 years.

This is interesting, since I just presented on this topic with a customer last week at the UKOUG - and the customer said "people say they want Web 2.0, but Web2.0 is just bringing the desktop experience to the browser - isn't that what Forms already does!"...and he is right. There is nothing to stop you developing your Forms to be more "web like" but still keep them in Forms - check out:
http://www.oracle.com/ocom/groups/public/@otn/documents/webcontent/459564_en-gb.pdf
Is Forms dated? Well it is a very mature product but if you can make it fit you needs then fine. Of course you are correct in that ADF and FMW give you many more opportunities which might open new channels for your application/business.
If you want to look are redevelopment of FOrms into ADF check out
http://download.oracle.com/otn_hosted_doc/jdeveloper/11gdemos/SummitADF/SummitADF_Redevelopment.pdf
As Michael points out, you can call something like web.show_document to launch and ADF application, but you have to be careful, this is a separate transaction and you are not using the same database connection. So there is no "magic" sharing of transactions.
You can also share business logic if you push logic into services and share between Forms and ADF.
regards
Grant

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