We had a meeting about iAS in the Danish user group the other day (OUGDK) titled "Can you get by without iAS?", in other words is it possible to create solutions without iAS. The answer, except for Forms & Reports, is of course yes, but you would then have to put a lot of stuff together yourself, and Oracle does a rather OK job on the Java front there. But that's another story.
The interesting discussion quickly became what to do about Forms & Reports. Everybody agreed there isn't much of a future for these products, but what would they use instead? A lot of Forms-folks noted that 1) Forms works very well these days and 2) Java code is so much bigger and more complicated. So although we all pretty much agreed that it's Java or .Net as development platforms in the coming years, people would still (especially in the large shops) continue using Forms.
Mogens
Smart Aleck DBA wrote:
.. and be sure to document for the next poor slob that has to act as admin for this mess
On Thu, 21 Aug 2003, Peter Gram wrote:
Hi
Yes it is posible to use Forms 3.x agenst a version 9.x database. My friend and coworker have implanted it at site on a sun box. The way to do this is to install Forms 3.x ( 7.2.x dist ?) in a new $OH and apliey a Forms 4 patch (xxxxxxx) to the forms $OH. Set the unix environment var. TWO_TASK to point to a IPC alias to the listener that can connect to the 9.x database.
The hard part is to find the Forms 4 patch (xxxxxx) it is not possible to order it from Oracle support but I think it as distributed with the 7.3.x Oracle database kit !
Senthil Kumar wrote:
Hi All,
Will forms 3 works with 9i. Any known issues in this.
TIA,
Senthil.
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