Run MS Windows executable on client machine

Hi All,
I am using Dev9i. My client machines will be MS Windows. My Forms will execute over the web. I need to have a Form read the client machine MAC Address and display it in the Form. There is an executable on the client machines, getmac.exe that when run returns the MAC Address.
So my user will bring up his browser and give the URL of my form, then the Form should run 'getmac.exe' on the client somehow and display the string that getmac returns. It also has to send the MAC to the db but I can handle that part.
Does anyone know how I would go about doing this?
Thanks

I found installing WebUtil to be a straightforward exercise. The Installation checklist is comprehensive, and if you follow it mechanically you should be alright. If you feel really lost in the world of web-deployment and Forms Server architecture then you should hop over to the Forms Upgrade Centre and read some of the white papers.
Having said that, No 7 Appendix A is simply asking you to add the location of the webutil directory. It even gives a cross-reference to the relevant page in the main body of the manual. You've already found the right section in the right file, what don't you know what to do? Copy is Crtl+C, paste is Crtl+V ;)
As for installation options, you only need to worry about them if you want to download an executable. Do all your users already have getmac.exe? If so, forget about it. If you have new users then the process is simple. Add a new line mimicing the example given in the Manual, only with getmac.exe in the name and the size of getmac.exe in the size (you can find this by rightclicking on the getmac.exe and looking at its properties. Make sure that a copy of getmac.exe is in the webutil/libs directory.
Being able to do this sort of configuration is going to be a vital skill in iour industry for the next few years. Increasingly, applications are built out of components from various sources that have been stitched together - some of the stitching can be quite crude (take a bow O9iAS R2 - only joking!). Eventually, there will be GUI tools to manage the myriad configuration files from a single point. Until then, MetaPad or Vi are going to be your best friends.
Good luck, APC

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Thanks.

In version 7.9.5.1 the instructions say to:
You must satisfy the following requirements on the machine on which you want to
install an additional DAC Client:
■ JDK 1.5 or higher must be installed. For more information, see Section 4.3.4.5,
"Download and Install the Java JDK".
■ The appropriate ODBC database connection must be created on the machine. For
more information, see Section 4.3.4.3, "Create ODBC Database Connections".
■ Download the Hibernate files from the Hibernate Web site. For more information,
see Section 4.3.4.6, "Download Hibernate Libraries".
To install an additional instance of the DAC Client on Windows
1. Copy the \OracleBI\DAC\ directory and its subfolders from the Oracle BI
Applications installation (on Windows) to the target Windows machine (for
example, to a directory called \DAC\).
2. Copy the \OracleBI\dwrep\ directory and its subfolders from the Oracle BI
Applications installation (on Windows) to the target Windows machine.
Note: Alternatively, if the target machine already has Oracle Business Intelligence
Enterprise Edition installed, you can run the Oracle BI Applications installer on the
target machine to install the DAC Client. For information about how to run the Oracle
BI Applications installer, see Section 4.4, "Running the Oracle BI Applications Installer
on Windows."
I haven't attempted this with the 7.9.6 version yet. Nor have I reviewed the documentation to see if it is mentioned as an alternative.

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