Upgrade of Forms 2.4 Character Mode to Forms 6i (6.0.8)

We have recenlty installed Oracle Applications 11i (11.5.5) on our Compaq Tru64 Unix Servers.
The task is to now upgrade/migrate our existing Forms (2.4 - character based) to 6i (6.0.8).
Question:
What is the best way to migrate these forms?
Is there a checklist to follow?
Does anyone have any examples?
Is there a upgrade/migration template to follow for this conversion?
Are there any documents that cover this subject that have not yet been posted to metalink, etc...?
Are there any potential issues to look out for?
Thank you for your assistance.

I am not already that long in business to have seen any forms 2.3/3.0 but i know one thing: if you have lots of v2-style triggers then don't use oracles built in formsconvert to go to forms6i - v2 style triggers were gradually phased out by oracle and in forms6i you don't have anymore access to them (they still work, but you can't see and edit the sourcecode anymore!) .. and they are fully removed from forms9i!
check www.kumaran.com for a converter utility that converts v2 to plsql triggers ... but when looking at their site i think it's only working when going over forms3.0 ?!
i am now also planing such a converter tool (or better converter script) that will work with forms6i (based on a old converterscript by oracle guru frank j. naude), but it will take me a few days ... checkout www.orcl-toolbox.com for more. Our tool might anyway be of interrest to you if you have many forms to convert, because often in a conversion process you will have to fix and change some things globally in your application system ... and using oracles Open API is sometimes the fastest way for doing this.
cheers stefan

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