Oracle Forms on Intel Mac

i there,
My job requires me to access an application which has been written in Oracle Forms. Unfortunately, when I try to open the URL of the application, Safari and Firefox both complain. I tried the same operation via my Parallels Windows XP partition and noticed that it wants to install an ActiveX called 'Jinitiator'. I did some investigation on the net and found references to people being able to run Oracle Forms via a Classic program called 'Applet Runner'. Of course, on my Intel-based Macbook, I can't run that program! I installed the Mac OS X program 'Applet Launcher' from the XCode package and tried using that to access the Oracle Forms app but that didn't work :(
I want to know, has anyone managed to run an Oracle Forms app on an Intel Mac and if so, how do I do it! My workaround is to use Windows XP via Parallels but it does eat into my machines performance and would love to be able to run the app natively.

For OS X the active x plugin is useless. You could ask your DBA to fix the jpi config part of the formsweb.cfg. This enables you to run forms from an applet (pure java), without jinitiator. How this can be done can be found on numerous places in this forum.

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