Forms 11g on Vista 64

Question

I am unable to install Forms 11g on Vista 64 bit. I've applied all as Jan Carlin's suggested and had no success
The installation fails on Create Domain. the installation basically timeout after 10 minutes or so with errors relating to Node Manager
I've tried with Sun JDk, Jrockit, Windows 95/2003 Compatibility mode and Native mode and all fail at the same place.
I've also noticed that I can not run Windows scripts installed by Forms installation (*.cmd) either.
(like startWeb...) I get an error line "\Smart was not expected ..." on the command line.
two questions:
is there a way to get Forms 11g working on Vista?
is there going to be a patch for Windows Vista / Windows 7 and when?
thanks

Answer 1

" \Common was unexpected at this time."
This message is a Standart message from Windows Console, not Oracle itslef !
I search for abotu 2 days and i found something interesting...
My way, was to find where in those CMD files there was an error....
I just to add some "Echo" function in those file. Is long as me message was print in the console, there was no problem BEFORE that line
About 10 minutes later i found That
File : C:\Oracle\Middleware\user_projects\domains\ClassicDomain\bin\setDomainEnv.cmd
Line289     set PATH=C:\Oracle\Middleware\LocalDev_1\bin;%PATH%
Before this line all Echo message appear, others dont... So that line was my problem
It's a special line that add to PATH Environnement Variable a new value... Fine...
What was in path ?
in my case :
C:\Oracle\Middleware\LocalDev_1\bin;
C:\app\Jean-Pierre\product\11.1.0\client_1;
C:\app\Jean-Pierre\product\11.1.0\client_1\bin;
%SystemRoot%\system32;
%SystemRoot%;
%SystemRoot%\System32\Wbem;
%SYSTEMROOT%\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\;
C:\Program Files\TortoiseSVN\bin;
c:\Program Files (x86)\Common\Divx; <=== " Oh there ! A Common name ! "
c:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SQL Server\90\Tools\binn\;
C:\Program Files\Windows Imaging\;
C:\Oracle\Middleware\LocalDev_1\opmn\bin;
C:\Oracle\Middleware\LocalDev_1\opmn\lib;
C:\Oracle\Middleware\LocalDev_1\perl\bin
I tried to remove it, and the message change !
" \Microsoft was unexpected at this time."
I was thinking Oracle doesnt like the space in the folder name (Like he doesn't like it in the middleware location)
BUT in fact, it's was de (x86) !
SO my workaround was to remove every entry with an (x86) on my PATH variable, and the installation just go fine !
Hope that will help lot of people having problems with Forms 11g on Windows x64!
Regards