Jinitiator or Sun java plug-in

Question

I've been reading a lot of posts lately about jinitiator. From what I've been able to understand, it looks like jinitiator is going away and the sun java plug-in is what we should be using.
Is there a definitive statement concerning this issue and is there info on how to make the switch to Sun plug-in? What changes to formsweb.cfg, how to present a download/install page, any forms issues involved, etc. We're using the current version of 10g.
Any guidance would be appreciated. Thank you.

Answer 1

It goes something like this.....
"Focus is lost on a multi window forms application if the user ALT-TAB's to another application and back. This is only an issue with SUN Java Plugin."
To reproduce.....
The requirements are to have SELECT access on ALL_TABLES and to have EXECUTE
access on DBMS_LOCK (because of a sleep of 5 seconds).
Have 2 Forms, Form A calls Form B (modal). Form A has a multi record block. Form B has a dbms_lock call in the exit_form trigger to delay exiting back to Forms A.
Have another Windows App open behind the form e.g. Notepad. Ensure that some
of Notepad is visible. Open Form A , call Form B (modal). In modal Form B, click Exit
Form - this takes 5 seconds to exit (due to dbms_lock sleep). While the hour glass is showing, click on the Notepad window, then click back on this form.
Once the modal form B is closed and focus has returned to this form, notice that "mouse navigation" is broken. The current record is highlighted but does not move when you click into a different record.
The mouse doesn't work anymore.
This is only an issue with Java Sun plugin. The Jinitiator version works (but gives a different error when you ALT TAB to another app and back again, the focus is lost in the field you were in).
Oracle have apparently raised a SR with SUN but there's no promises as to when and if it will get resolved. Meanwhile we're stuck with JInitiator.
If anyone has any ideas, please yell out !!