Oracle Form - use in batch mode

How could I launch a procedure triggered by a form in batch mode, without the need of interactive operations.
I should be able to pass all the parameters that can be set in interactive mode
Is there any standard way to do that?
Nicola

One of our customer have a huge amount of forms, and they want to automate them using a job scheduling solution, but they don't want to rewrite all the code of forms
The problem is that it seems impossible to launch them using any kind of command mode / non interactively
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