Handling DDE in 10G

Hi all..
We are migrating 4.5 forms application to 10G.
We have too many DDE calling pdfs, excels and external applications in the 4.5 forms.
Now we are hosting everything in 10G AS, so all the DDE calls will now look for the files in the AS and will fail.
Webutil doesn't provide workaround for this like it does for other client handling operations(ole2).
So please suggest me wat to do ?
Thnx in advance
Sriram

DDE has been in effect depricated and relaced by OLE and so regardless of the issues of upgrading to the web, it would still be an issue that would have to be written using OLE.
Regards
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