Converting Oracle Forms to J2EE

Hi,
I was just wondering if the conversion of the forms using jHeadStart will require a lot of recoding of application logic attached to the forms. As oracle forms has a lot of built-in form triggers, how will this be converted using jHeadStart? Will it entirely disappear from the converted code?

George,
From the thread 'Does JHeadstart retain business logic after forms9i migration?':
[...] the JHeadstart Designer Generator will not covert any PL/SQL logic.
Apart from the fact that this would be a very complicated task indeed, the functionality behind the PL/SQL logic in most cases will not have a 1:1 equivalent in a web application, so a conversion will not make sense anyway.
The philosophy behind the JHeadstart Designer Generator is to assist in a true migration to a Java/XML based application, where functionality is implemented using the proper technology for that platform. This rather than converting a solution that made sense using Designer/Developer, but that you would never have used when you build a Java/XML application from scratch.
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