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Oracle Forms
From Oracle FAQ Oracle Forms (part of the Oracle Developer Suite - formerly called Developer 2000 or D2K) is a Rapid Application Development (RAD) environment for developing database applications. The language used inside is PL/SQL.

Contents
1 Development concepts 2 Version History 2.1 Forms v1/ IAP 2.2 Forms v2 & 2.3 2.3 Forms v3 2.4 Forms v4/ 4.5 2.5 Forms v5 2.6 Forms v6/ 6i 2.7 Forms 9i 2.8 Forms 10g 2.9 Forms 11g 3 Also see 4 External links

Development concepts
The fundamental concepts in Forms are: A canvas is an area for painting the various items and labels that provide the user interface. A block is often based on, and corresponds to, a database table. Forms is most useful when used to provide operations that conform to the fundamental SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE concepts. Coding generally hangs off triggers based around these events, or around user events (such as pressing a button or moving to a different field).

Version History
Forms v1/ IAP
No UI - just a compiler for imp files. Users had to manually code *.imp files Terminal/ character based deployment Free with the database software

Forms v2 & 2.3

V2 was the first commercial version of Forms. Ability to define *.imp files from a UI Free with the database software

Forms v3
Old v2-style triggers replaced with PL/SQL style triggers

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Forms v4/ 4.5

Common graphical interface designed to operate under Windows and X Windows. Desupport dates: Error Correction support ended 31 December 2000, Extended Assistance support ended 31 December 2003.

Forms v5
Custom graphical modes tuned especially for each of the major systems - internal programmatic interface remained system-independent.

Forms v6/ 6i
Introduction of the Forms Server - Forms execute on mid-tier and deliver UI to user's web browsers (Java applet) Last version of forms that offers character mode deployment. Desupport dates: Error Correction support ended 31 December 2004, Extended Assistance support ended 31 December 2007.

Forms 9i
Client-server deployment no longer supported Character-based interfaces no longer supported Only Web deployment remains

Forms 10g
Forms can Inter-operate with J2EE applications and Web Services Last version able to migrate Forms 4.5, Forms 5, Forms 6, and Forms 9

Forms 11g
The current release Only able to migrate Forms 10g Support for Advanced Queuing

Also see
Forms FAQ - Frequently asked questions

External links
Oracle's FORMS Home Page (http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/forms/) Forms Developer and Forms Server Documentation (http://www.oracle.com/technology/documentation/forms.html) FormDiff and FormGrep utilities (http://www.aug10.com/) FormsMate (http://www.jockvale.ca/) - A Swiss Army Knife for Oracle application developers FormsAPI Master and FormsTool (http://www.orcl-toolbox.com/) - Great utilities for Forms Developers OraPlayer - Oracle Forms Solutions (http://www.OraPlayer.com/) - Auditing and Integration of Oracle Forms. Real end-user audit software. Retrieved from "http://www.orafaq.com/wiki/index.php?title=Oracle_Forms&oldid=12991" Category: Development This page was last modified on 1 December 2010, at 12:10. .:: Wiki Home :: Blogger Home :: Forum Home :: Contact :: Privacy ::.

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