Easiest to migrate MS Acess application to Oracle forms/reports

Hi,
I have one application in MS Acess I want to migrate it to Oracle forms 10g, is there any easy way to do this job starting from schema creation upto front end.
Thanks and Regards, Khawar.

I had a access database solution, but no forms in it, so maybe that was different from yours.The solution I used was:
Made a button in an access form, and from that buttons event:
1: Queried all TableDefs of the database
2: Queried all Columns of each table
3: Made Create-scripts for those objects (of course substituted the datatypes to an oracle equalient)
4: Run those create scripts against the OraDB
That took approx ½-1 hour of coding, but it was faster than creating all the objects from scratch.
I saw some Non-free software that promised to do this for me, but I don't think any software can convert an Access form to an Oracle Form (if that's what you seek).
One I found at: http://www.hxtt.com/access2oracle.html (still I think it's only the tables you can migrate)
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