Weblogic 10.3.2 as a replacement of OAS 10g full of Oracle Forms

hello, quick question: Can I take a entire system in Oracle Forms with OAS 10g technology and deploy them on a Weblogic 10.3.2 as an upgrade/replacement option ?
Can weblogic run Oracle forms out of the box or is there a vendor lock-in trick ?
Thanks in advance,
fabio

Out of the box, WLS is not able to run Oracle Forms.
At the time of this writing, for a complete replacement you need the following components:
- WLS 10.3.2
- OFM 11g Forms
(optional for single sign-on)
- OFM 11g OID
- AS 10.1.4 OID DAS and mod_osso
HTH,
--olaf

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