Upgrade form 8i to 10g

I have worked on Oracle 8i forms and reports now i want to upgrade myself from
8i to Oracle10g/11g suggest me the best approch.

Do you wish to educate yourself or do you plan to upgrade your existing application to work with Oracle 11g?
Its not very clear based on what you have written.

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  • Upgrade forms on upgrading DB from 9i to 10g

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  • Forms 6i to 10g Migration Questions

    Hi,
    My company is thinking about migrating Forms 6i to 10g. I wonder if you can share some of your experience with us (and with thousands of others who will also face the same daunting task)
    1. How do you like/dislike Forms 10g after the migration?
    2. What are the pitfalls of Forms 10g? What are the strengths?
    3. Other than Oracle Migration tools, is there any other tools that can help us?
    4. How long is the migration process typically taken?
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    John Sun

    May I answer your question with some questions of my own? :)
    1. Are you migrating from Forms6i client-server or web?
    2. If Web, to a non-Windows middle tier (hopefully)?
    3. Do you plan to incorporate OID/SSO and/or Portal in the new environment?
    I just reached the end of a 6-month long prototyping project to migrate our Forms/Reports 6i application (80% client-server, 20% web) to 10g, using SSO and Portal for report destination. We migrated about a dozen forms of varying complexity and rewrote our main application/menu form. We originally thought the prototype would take 3-4 months. The purpose was to learn what we needed to develop the best migration approach and have an idea of what it would cost. The application has about 650 forms/reports modules. Costs and the learning curve prohibited a move to J2EE/ADF; oh I wished... Management is hoping we can complete the full migration in about a year, but I think... well, this is a public forum and I am using my real name. ;)
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    However, many long-standing 6i bugs have been fixed, and I really, REALLY do appreciate being at PL/SQL version 10 in Forms.
    But we have some real challenges too, some self-inflicted. Some 400 of our application forms were converted from SQL*Forms 3.0 via Kumaran a while back. This is admittedly our greatest challenge. The V3 forms, being they were character-based with no mouse support, had lots of code in Key-navigation triggers that was never meant to be in navigation triggers (validation, etc) and would get bypassed if the user skipped the field using a mouse. Kumaran solved this problem using mouse triggers which are no longer supported on the web. We also are attempting to introduce some enhancements during the migration like become Section 508 compliant.
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  • Forms 6i and 10g db issues

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  • Upgrading form 5.0.6.18.1 TO 6i

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  • How to upgrade froms and reports 10g to froms,Repor 11g on weblogic server

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  • Migrating Forms 5 toForms 10g (without forms 6i) ...

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    It's not recommended to migrate from Forms 5 to 10g directly, the internal structure is completely different, you need to migrate to 6i first where you'll do all the correction needed and than migration to 10g will be very smooth.
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  • Upgrading to Developer Suite 10g R2

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