Clustering of Oracle 10gAS (Forms and Reports Standalone edition)

Hi,
Does anyone have experience of clustering of Forms\Reports in 10g environement with Forms and Reports Standalone edition?
Clustering at Application Server level?
Clustering at hardware level (load balancing \SAN for code storage)?
Clustering at OS level (MS Clustering)?
I am interested to know about others experiences\thoughts.
John

Since 10g Version (904) you can only cluster the infra (Cold Failover Cluster and Active Failover Cluster), the HA for Forms and Reports is only by frontending with a Loadbalancer, and I'll sugesst not to use WebCache as this frontend because forms get a lot of problems.
Regards.

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