Faces/JSF vs Forms Application ?

Hi All,
I need to compare Forms based application with Faces/JSF based application, in term of performance.
(The fact of proprietary vs open standard is not the consideration)
Could any body please give comments on the points below :
1) Initial Load, Forms has heavy initial load, can I say that Faces/JSF has much lighter initial Load ?
2) Response Time, Faces/JSF has better response time than Formss ?
3) Bandwidth Requirement, Faces/JSF need less bandwidth than Forms ?
Thank you for your help,
xtanto

Its a pretty difficult question to answer since generally speaking they target different styles of application.
As a general observation - being a "thin" client - JSF will be faster in that there is no initial download like Forms has with the Forms JAR file. Forms will also load e JVM which takes time as well...
Response time is a difficult one as well since you tend, again, to have different expectation with the different UI technologies...
I guess what we really need to do is get to the bottom of why you asking the question; if you are about to make a development decision there may be other factors which weight more heavily.
Regards
Grant Ronald
Product Management

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Can somebody explain, how can we configure the SSO with Forms application.
I have two application server instances. One for infrastructre and Other for application.
Thanks

Have a look at http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/forms/pdf/10g/frm10gsso.pdf and http://download-uk.oracle.com/docs/cd/B14099_19/web.1012/b14032/sso.htm#i1006721

Help with httpd.conf redirect to our Forms Application

Hello. We are running Oracle Application Server 10g Release 2 (10.1.2) Forms & Reports services on a Windows 2003 x64 server. I'm having a difficult time trying to get the default Oracle iAS homepage to redirect to our forms application installed on the same server. For example, we access our server homepage at http://db1. We access our forms app at http://db1/forms/frmservlet?form=C:\forms\execs\app.fmx. In httpd.conf I've tried the following:
1. Redirect / http://db1/forms/frmservlet?form=C:\forms\execs\app.fmx
When accessing http://db1, the following error is returned:
FRM-92130: Registry is either missing, or contains invalid, entry for Dispatcher...
The error returned in Internet Explorer 7 is:
java.lang.ClassFormatError: oracle/forms/engine/Main (Bad magic number)
This also breaks the form URL.
2. I also tried this at the end of httpd.conf:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^/(.*)$ http://db1/forms/frmservlet?form=C:\forms\execs\app.fmx
When accessing http://db1, the server appears to be stuck in a loop. I think the problem is that the redirect is happening on all occurrences that contain "db1". So then a user enters http://db1, the redirection happens. But after the redirection, the new URL contains "db1" and the redirection happens again and keeps looping.
Any help resolving this issue is greatly appreciated.
-Al

Summary:
I fixed the "Bad magic number" error by modifying the client's JInitiator configuration to not use Browser Settings for Proxies.
Issue:
JInitiator running in Internet Explorer displays the following error: "java.lang.ClassFormatError: oracle/forms/engine/Main (Bad magic number)”
Details:
In my case, only external users connecting via a Proxy Server were having this issue.
Solution:
• Open "JInitiator Control Panel":
Start --> Settings --> Control Panel --> JInitiator 1.3.1.22
• Open [Proxies] tab; Uncheck the “Use Browser Settings” checkbox.

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