Is Forms going to be History ?

Hi All,
Of late I have got an opportunity to work on J2ee. Earlier I used to work on Oracle Forms. Should I stick to Forms or J2ee would be a better propostion? Yor valuable suggestions are welcome.
Someone told me Forms soon will be History. Is it correct?
Regards,
ASK

In my opinion - it's a shame that "forms" will be history.
There is a lot of behind the scenes stuff that forms does automatically for you - and at the moment - I prefer this.
Doing what we do in our forms - I don't see it happening on web pages - and I would not look forward to doing our trickeries and GUI requirements in a Java application.
We don't do simple customer data entry forms, or take orders. We data entry and process a whole hell of a lot of data and report on it.
My job is solid here for a few more years in forms.. so I'm no fretting. I have a lot of functional system knowledge to get on board for any subsequent rewrites in any other technology of the day.
Right now - Oracle 10g stability (compared to 9i) and the hardware has finally caught up to handling our system sufficiently - Our 3 year hardware upgrade cycle is next year - I could have gotten away suggesting we do nothing and wait another. Things are running really smooth finally.

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