Oracle Form Vs OAF JSP Form

I have some basic questions regarding Oracle Forms and OAF JSP forms. There is a requirement by the client to create custom forms for a functionality not available in Oracle Applications R12. I have to make the decision if Oracle forms or OAF JSP should be used to develop these forms. I have been told that both are supported in R12. I would like to know what is the advantage of doing one over the other? What factors do I need to consider?
Thanks

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OPEN_FLAG =>'Y',
SESSION_FLAG =>'N' ,
OTHER_PARAMS =>'&ViewBatchID = "' || NAME_IN('FUN_AGIS_LINE_D.BATCH_ID') ||
'&CallingFunction = "' || 'MANEXPINQ' ||'"');
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Please let me know any thing I missed out here.
Any suggestion will highly appreciated.
Thanks & Regards,
Sunita

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Is it possible to display Oracle form as a region in OAF Page?

Hi
Is it possible to display Oracle form as a region in OAF page something like a master detail relationship such that Master information is displayed in OAF UI but detail information below is displayed in Oracle forms?Is there a tag that lets one do that specific for Form.
One way could be do to embed applet in OAF page which would call and display oracle form but not sure if using javascript/applet in OAF would violate OAF coding standards or create some session management issues.
Regards
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Thanks for your reply.I have seen an implementation that uses Adf and able to display form on same page as in inlinefraame in .jspx page using inlineFrame tag
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id="inlineFrm1"
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Calling OAF Page from Oracle forms

Hi All,
Is it possible to call an Oracle Forms from OAF page?
I need to call a OAF page EAM material cost screen from oracle form using personalization.
Please any one put on some lights on this issue.
Thanks in Advance,
Ramesh reddy
Edited by: user642447 on May 13, 2011 4:33 AM

Ramesh,
yes, its possible to call oaf page from oracle forms.
This has been specified step by step in Developer Guide. Refer it for more.
Regards,
Gyan

It looks Oracle Form/Applet die hard versus J2EE Servlet/JSP/JSF & AJAX

I left the form forum for a while and am busy with transfering our Oracle web forms app to Struts based J2EE application (just because the Oracle EE AS is the moving cause, it's out of my control.). After a year or so on J2EE which I enjoyed the fresh OO coding while keep enhancing Oracle webform app in production, I have some thought on Applet vs J2EE JSP/JSF plus AJAX.
1) JSP itself is hard to avoid the full screen refreshing even though user just does partial changes ,e.g., lists, on the screen, it has to use AJAX to do the tricks. While partial refreshing in applet is natural default behavior.
2) Forms is really an RAD, while J2EE's IDEs does help a bit(IBM's Websphere v6 even called iRAD) which takes way longer programming time compared to Forms. One IBM's article says it trys to win the Oracle Forms developers by giving the familiar graphical way of drag/drop GUI, so IBM recognizes the RAD coding power of Oracle Forms. So, IBM promotes the RAD similar to Oracle Forms.
3) GUI/business rules related validation: Applet offered a great advantage over JSP/ even JSF which to avoid the full screen refresh, AJAX/JavaScript is used heavily. User friendly interaction of applet is way better than J2EE.
4) Browser's back/refresh buttons also are headache to J2EE, expecially we need to support IE and Firefox. Applet basically is not bothered by these buttons.
Recently, I read techi news said that the new chips will make the network transfer speed 10 time faster than now-even the cell phone transfer the image will be way faster. Then I predict the applet, just like IBM's mainframe, will see its Spring again, not like now in its winter. Especially the Oracle Forms makes coding easier than pure applet coding.
Oracle folks, kepp beefing up the Oracle Forms, don't just pay attention to JDev. J2EE IDE, most of all, remove the Oracle EE ASxx block, be open. Oracle EE ASxx is really not a pretty baby, even though so Oracle thinks it is.

1) Why we are transfering your Oracle web forms app to Struts based J2EE application?
Since our corporate is IBM world-DB2/UDB, WebSphere AS (WAS) etc. It only allows Oracle Forms/reports servers to be compatible with the infrastructure. It does not allow to purchase another EE app server(espeically LDAP). We could not upgrade our forms/reports6i to 9i or 10g.
2.Therefore the Oracle EE AS is the moving cause, it's out of my control because I did my best to talk to Oracle sales, but no avail. I am glad that I got a good chance to beef up my J2EE Struts skills.
If extract out the forms/report9i/10g engines from the Oracle EE AS 9i/10g, (don't attempt to bundle sell the EE AS to customers-regardless of the shrinked 9.0.4 forms/reports services version, it's still another EE AS) and make them compatible with other ASs(espcially the LDAP), then Oracle Forms will have more customers.

Can we call an oracle form from OAF Page

Hi,
I have a requirement , wherein I should add a field to an existing OAF Page and when the user clicks on the field the oracle forms should open and after filling the details in the oracle form user will close the from and return to the OAF page.
I would like to get some inputs on how this can be acheived.
Please do help .

Use this as an example.
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Regards,
Ravi.

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<PARAM NAME="CODE"       VALUE="oracle.forms.engine.Main" >
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<PARAM NAME="EndUserMonitoringURL" VALUE="">
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        serverApp="default"
        logo=""
        imageBase="DocumentBase"
        formsMessageListener=""
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        EndUserMonitoringEnabled=""
        EndUserMonitoringURL=""
        heartBeat=""
>
<NOEMBED>
</COMMENT>
</NOEMBED></EMBED>
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Oracle Forms Developer 11g - OAF - ADF ????

Hi
i am a newbie in these terms and hence don't know much of the difference ....
I completed OCA developer and now i don't know what to choose next ???
what i have seen online about next certification path is
http://education.oracle.com/pls/web_prod-plq-dad/db_pages.getpage?page_id=5001&get_params=p_exam_id:1Z0-151&p_org_id=&lang=
that is Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g: Build Applications with Oracle Forms
also i saw some hype about ADF and OAF well being newbie i dont know what is the difference or either i can't find each of these in the Certification lists.
what i assumed is OAF is the same as Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g: Build Applications with Oracle Forms
but where is the certification of ADF ??? any link
also what to choose regardless of what i have in mind.
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Regards
Hassan Siddique

Hassan,
OAF is not forms and it's not ADF either. These are different products targeting different markets.
OAF (Oracle Application Framework - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)
Oracle Application Framework (OA Framework or OAF) is a proprietary framework developed by Oracle Corporation for application development within the Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS)
ADF (Oracle Application Development Framework - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)
In computing, Oracle Application Development Framework, usually called Oracle ADF, provides a commercial Java framework for building enterprise applications. It provides visual and declarative approaches to Java EE development. It supports rapid application development based on ready-to-use design patterns, metadata-driven and visual tools.
Forms (Oracle Forms - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)
Oracle Forms is a software product for creating screens that interact with an Oracle database. It has an IDE including an object navigator, property sheet and code editor that uses PL/SQL. It was originally developed to run server-side in character mode terminal sessions. It was ported to other platforms, including Windows, to function in a client–server environment. Later versions were ported to Java where it runs in a Java EE container and can integrate with Java andweb services.
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For more information you can use google and search for "oracle oaf" or "oracle adf" or "oracle forms"
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Coverting Oracle Form to JSP

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What is advatage of oaf over oracle forms

Hi Group,
This is azamtulla oracle apps technical consultant.
Can anybody tell me the diffrence between OAF and oracle Forms?
what is the advantage of OAF over Forms?
how can we explain our client what is advantage of oaf over forms?what benift he get in his business?
Thanks Regards
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- Liang Yi

Thanks, I check the comparison of OAF and ADF document downloaded from Oracle Support, but it is for ADF10g, I believe ADF11g is much better, and anyone check the comparison table between ADF 10g and OAF R12 would choose OAF.
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Hi
I have an application web with Oracle Forms 6i and I want to
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valida.jsp. This been worth that the user exists in the database
and later I try to open the url of my application without being
able to hide my user and password.
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I had a discussion with one of the Oracle technical consultants prior to your reply who mentioned that the Oracle's JDeveloper utility has functionality to tranform Forms into JSPs. Is that a possible path for this conversion.. it may not be an automatic solution but is it possible?
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Need to login again while opening a JSP page from inside Oracle Forms

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Whenever we are trying to open java page from inside an Oracle Form a login page is coming again.And we need to login to view the page.Whereas when the same page is been opened from the home page itself it is opening fine.
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Hi there -
I have one interesting requirement in Oracle Forms.
This is what I wanted to do.
1. Have a LOV and Go button on Form.
2. From LOV, I will select a pre-defined custom table and click Go.
3. Based on the selected custom table, I have to populate the Block (Tabular Format).
4. User should be able to do update, delete, insert on this block.
5. User should be able to use the Oracle Form folders functionality (select only necessary column and save views etc. Std folder functionality).
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You can see here, I am going to have dynamic query data source (Table Name as well as column mapping) on the block. I do not know before hand how many columns the user selected table has!
This is what I have planned for this so far but I have some major questions before I can move on with this design:
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Initially I tried to do this in OA Framework but I got stuck at because as per OAF developer guide "I cannot user OAF personalization for dynamic items, regions etc".
For more info on that thread see this link...
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Thanks in advance for the help.

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user549194 wrote:
Hi to everyone,
This is a rant on the stupidity of Oracle Forms. From my point of view, it is pointless and VERY PAINFUL to develop.
Come on, who in the right would use Oracle FORMS to develop database applications? Heck, I can develop my very own web application in Servlet and JSP twice as quick as this piece of crappy framework can produce. Who are you trying to kid? Tie down PL/SQL to the application level? The very idea of FORMS is bullshit.
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pointless ? I think your thread is pointless...
I will not make the pro-forms against the world... There are so many tools, just make the right choice for your needs.
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regards
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