Forms 6i Connect to 10g R2 DB

Hi,
We are planning to migrate only our 9i database to 10gR2 and 9iAS to 10gAS. One of our application is developed in Forms/ Reports 6i, deployed in 9i Application Server and others are in Java/J2ee/JSP and Portal. Now we are planning to integrate all the applications.
1. Do we face any problem if migrate only the database from 9i to 10g?
2. Do we face any problems while deploying forms 6i into 10gAS?
3. What are problem we may get when integrating the forms 6i application with Java applications?
Please help us.
Thanks & Regards
M Thiyagarajan

I can't respond to your 3rd question, however, in response to questions 1 & 2, you shouldn't have any problems running a Forms 6i App against the 10G database and Oracle App Server 10g - at least, we have not run into any issues running Forms 6i against these versions. There are actually several posts in the Forum regarding this so you may want to search the forums to see if anyone ran into any problems and what their solutions were.
Hope this helps.
Craig...
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