Forms and Reports 6i to web migration

Hello,
Is there any white paper that describes about how to migrate from client server architecture to a web running on UNIX?
We are migrating from forms and reports 6i running on windows to web running on UNIX with the versions of products.
Thanks in advance.

check this out:
http://otn.oracle.com/products/forms/htdocs/upgrade/content.html
I have tried running Forms/Reports 6i servers on Solaris 8. It was different than using the 9iAS EE forms/reports services - but the concept is similar. I also used whitepapers that I downloaded from Metalink which were explaining the client/server and the web form design differences (such as when-mouse tringgers won't work in web forms, etc).
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