Best book on Forms 9i Forms?

Hi,
I'm looking for books on Form Developer. More precisely I'm not looking for a reference book, I'm more looking for the kind of book that explains the philosophy and principles of forms. Something that digs deeper. More like cookbook and cooking techniques. Something that contains phrases like:
"Forms Developer is filled with a myriad of triggers, like KEY-CLRFRM. This trigger is seldomly used because it will clear too much of a form and settings. You can remove this standard Forms Function and free it for use in your own framework for specific purposes or as your own user-defined accelerator keys."
"Where to use the Enter; functionality and not. As you can see from the help file you use it like [this], but you're probably really in a situation like this, that or this other one, and you can also use Enter here to accomplish [great things]"
"How to make sure your validation does what you think it should do and how to avoid weird things. The 'Enter' "
"Short-cut key strategies. How do you create a system that both teaches the maximum about Oracle standard functionality to your users while providing them with a bunch of custome keys for their specific needs? Remebering and using the Help items in the Property Palette - which to show and which to hide?"
"Building your own library (OLB) of standard GUI items and widgets, and the standard functionality you can easily include in them."
"Where NOT to put your not-so-robust code. If you put a sequence on stuff in key-commit and have failure at step1, forgets to check_package_failure, then forms will continue with any step2 you have in the trigger and things may get out of sync. E.g. if you try to insert in step1 and in step2 you increment a formsvariable in order to keep track of things you'll be out of sync."
Anything that helps you build a better framework for forms or explain the important - but often hidden stumbling blocks - to those of us who are not exactly new to Forms but just clever enough to know that these hidden dangers lurk out there (and wish to avoid learning by trial-and-error).
Regards,
Jesper Vad Kristensen
Denmark

Jesper,
If you do not find any interresting book, you could have a look at the following url:
http://mates.ms.mff.cuni.cz/oracle/doc/forms45/at/
Francois

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