The whole world speaks about working in the cloud. Why not Oracle Forms?
Why not...
Why...
Because: Oracle did it already...
Grant points to this webcast with the words: "Oracle Forms remains a key technology..."
Have fun listening to Michael and Roger
Gerd
The behavior of tab canvases ist very interesting, when your form gets more and more tabpages. Let's say, you have only three pages in your tab canvas. (Width Style Property = Fixed)
Forms automatically renders all three pages in the same size. That's what we expected.
In the next step we create a fourth tab:
If there is not enough space for all page-labels in the same size, then we see a first kind of resizing. All labels are readable. But the size of some pages is reduced.
If we create more tabpages:
At one point the label-text shrinks and
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And here are some tips for the DOAG Conference in Germany
Jan Peter Timmermann
Wolfgang Kriebel, Christian Kühne
My own presentation :
Perry Pakull
Stephan La Rocca
And in the afternoon we can attend at the Fusion Middleware Panel with Frank Nimphius, Duncan Mills and Jürgen Menge
Gerd
Here are some tips for the Oracle "Forms" Open World 2012
Grant talks about The Future of Oracle Forms :
Lucas presentation is about The Future, too :
Mia and Grant talk together about face-lifting-tips for Forms :
More infos can be found on
Grants blog and on
Mia's blogHave fun with it
Gerd
Some days ago a new certification-document with an interesting info was updated:
Link to the certificationsIn this excel-sheet is Forms 11.1.1.6 certified with JRE 1.7.0_04+. Very good news! And now we can hope, that Forms 11.1.2 gets the same certification soon, because this is the latest version available on OTN :
And last but not least: " Please Oracle, certify Oracle Forms 10g with JRE 7 ! "
Gerd
It looks like, that all forms-applications run into a huge problem, starting next week, July 3rd 2012.
Oracle's Java 1.6-Updater will automatically update the JRE to 1.7 on all PC's, where auto-update is activated. And Java 1.7 is not certified with Forms 10g, Forms 11g or the E-Business-Suite (EBS-forms-components)
I try to find all relevant informations to that topic and blog them afterwards. So feel free to share this blog to all customers who may have this problem next week.
Here are the first links:
The latest news directly from E-Business Suite Development
JRE Troubleshouting Guide
OTN (more...)
Wilfred van der Deijl presented "Partial and or Gradual migration by embedding existing Forms in new UI technology".
Because Oracle didn't offer a migration solution from Oracle Forms to ADF, Wilfred showed a technique to integrate existing forms applications into a new ADF application. He called it OraFormsFaces, a framework, which allows him creating hybrid applications. The non-forms part must not be ADF, so you can use other web technologies too.
This hybrid way can be used to slightly move from forms to another technology, without having Big Bangs.
In the last presentation Steven Davelaar spoke about "JHeadstart: Real world
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Mia Urman started with the next presentation: "To infinity and beyond: Extend the life of your Oracle Forms application by running your existing Forms from next generation technologies/platforms without migration"
She demonstrated "next generation forms" with oraplayer. A tool, which recreates a form into a mobile version.
In the first step OraPlayer records a forms business scenario.
Then you publish it to the web. In the last step you create an UI in the technology of your choice.
While you playback the scenario you work and interact with a running forms-runtime in the background.
The presentation of Madi Serban showed
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While Lucas Jellema was presenting his keynote, he had a time slot for Grant Ronald, live from UK via skype.
Grant told us about how we should develop in forms today, how to migrate today to Forms 11 and Forms 12 in the future. One sentence was very clear: "There are no plans to desupport Oracle Forms".
In the next presentation Francois Degrelle spoke about "Modernizing Forms using Pluggable Java Components and the Forms Look and Feel project".
He started with "Why should we use Java Beans in our Forms"
He demonstrated interesting java beans like a java calendar, a
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Yesterday I attend at the "Future of Oracle Forms" conference in Nieuwegein, Netherland.
Great conference !
Lucas Jellema from AMIS started as host with a wide overview over the history of forms, the evolution and future of forms.
After that the day was structured into 3 parts. In the first part each speaker has 30 minutes to show the topics of his presentation. Each speaker got an additionally 45 minutes afterwards, where 3 tracks run parallel in separate rooms. Last but not least, each speaker gave a 120 minutes hands-on in the evening.
to be continued tomorrow in part 2
Gerd
I got an invitation to an interesting conference in the netherlands next week (May 15th 2012).
AMIS in the netherlands is the initiator of the conference and host, too.
The conference is splitted into two parts. From 9 to 5 we will hear many presentations from the top speakers in europe. Francois Degrelle, Wilfried van der Deijl, Mia Urman and many others are on the list. In the evening we can use our own notebook to participate in hands-on-sessions!
That will be a good chance, to hear and see, what can be done to modernize your Oracle Forms.
Links to
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is part of the Oracle Fusion Middleware 12c !
That is the essential part of the yesterday's "Statement of Direction for Forms, Reports and Designer".
"We are planning to release Oracle Reports 12c as part of Oracle Fusion Middleware 12c". This is the important sentence in the reports-section of "Oracle's Product Strategy".
That's very good news. Now I can end my campaign "Save Oracle Reports" :-) And it's the first day I can officially point on an Oracle Document, in which we can read it line for line. The last two months were hard, because of the many rumors about this
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Many thanks to Mia. She gave me the tip to her blog
where she pointed to Grant's presentation:
That's the first time, that we directly hear from Oracle, that the best technology to where we should migrate to, is .... Oracle Forms
Many thanks to all of you. I got many emails in the first days of my "Save Oracle Reports" campaign.
I forwarded all emails last week to Oracle Product Management.
I'm interested if we get response... and what kind of response, if we get one.
We need
I started last thursday the campaign
"Save Oracle Reports" and I get more and more EMails. All of them have company-wide applications running with forms and reports and cannot live without reports.
One customer (thanks to Markus) pointed me on the actual
OTN-Forms-Forum-Poll named "How many Oracle Reports do you
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At the DOAG Development Panel yesterday was told about the future of Oracle Reports. That did not sound good
Next week there will be an important internal meeting at Oracle, where they speak over the future of Oracle Reports in the Oracle Fusion Middleware 12c. It looks like, that the
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"Oracle Forms 12c" is the new official name in the Fusion Middleware 12 universe for our good old forms!
Heard on the German Oracle User Group Conference from the development team.
So it looks like all products are getting the c (for cloud) in their name.
Let's hope, that Fusion
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Summary
When I take a look at the poll results, I recognize as a major concern for many users, the fear of an uncertain future. Oracle should give a clear commitment to Forms and combat this insecurity so active.
There is a big risk that the majority of those who
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