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Please forgive if this is the wrong forum for this question. I think this forum makes the most sense for it, so here goes. I posted this in a MOS community but did not get hardly any feedback.
I am curious how others out there are handling there developer installations. We have Oracle Forms and Reports version 11.1.1.6 64bit running on Solaris SPARC with WLS 10.3.6 for for production and test. We have around 15 developers who are currently running WLS 10.3.4 and Forms and Reports 11.1.1.4 on Windows 7 32 bit. At the time we made our conversion from 6i to 11g Oracle Forms and Reports were not supported on a 64 bit Windows platform. That has since changed.
My issue is maintaining all of these separate installations for the developers. Because they are 32 bit there is the 4GB of memory constraint on the operating system. I have lots of trouble with these instances in large part due to the tight memory configuration. Just running WLS with two managed servers, one for forms and one for reports uses 75% of the available RAM.
What I would like to do is have some sort of shared development environment so that I don't have maintain so many instances of WLS and Forms and Reports. I am curious how other customers are handling their developer installations. Is there a better way than loading a full blown WLS and Forms and reports server on each developers workstation? I would love to load a 64 bit Windows 2008 server with WLS and Forms and Reports, and give it Terminal server licenses to allow them to share one instance, but I don't see where Forms Builder and Reports Builder are supported on 64bit Windows server platforms, at least not 11gR1.
My last resort is to add memory to their workstations and reload as 64 bit, but that does nothing to address my problem of having to maintain so many instances of WLS and Forms and Reports. I am prepared to go this route if I can not find a better solution. I also understand there is a developer edition now available where the forms and reports run inside the admin server reducing the footprint, but I am not sure which version this is included in.
So again I ask how are you folks handling you Forms and Reports installations for your developers?
Edited by: user11049532 on Jan 11, 2013 10:23 AM

Right, I've had a look this morning and here are a few gaps in my explanation:
Each developer will need their own environment set up on the development server.
The first part of this is to have their own directory on the server which they may want to map to a drive on their PC. Let's call this directory DEV_HOME.
The second part is to set up their environment on the Forms server part of weblogic, you can do this either through the Enterprise Manager interface or manually via the filesystem. If you're doing it via the file system the files you need to copy/alter will be in a directory similar to the one below:
d:\Oracle\Middleware\user_projects\domains\ClassicDomain\config\fmwconfig\servers\WLS_FORMS\applications\formsapp_11.1.2\config
First of all make a copy of the default.env file for each developer. You will need to change the FORMS_PATH variable in this file to include the developers DEV_HOME server directory. In our setup my environment file is called adrian.env.
Next you will need to change the forms web configuration to include a section for each developer. If you're doing it manually the file is called formsweb.cfg and will be in the directory listed above. All you need to put in the section is a variable 'envFile' pointing to the environment file you've just created. The section for me in our formsweb.cfg is listed below:
*[adrian]*
*# System parameter: file setting environment variables for the Forms runtime processes*
envFile=adrian.env
You may need to restart the forms server to have these changes take effect if you've done the changes manually.
The developers should store all their forms files that they are working on in their DEV_HOME directory on the development server. When they open a file in Forms Builder they should open it using the full network path (not via a mapped drive) e.g. \\DOMAIN\Server\d$\users\username\fmb\myform.fmb.
In Forms Builder the Application Server URL needs to be set, it can be accessed by:
Select Edit from the menu -> Preferences... -> Runtime -> Application Server URL
This setting needs to be changed to:
http://servername:portnumber/forms/frmservlet?config=adrian
Now when a developer clicks the Run form icon the form should run on the development server, with no need to have weblogic running on their own pc.

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