Tag: forms 11g

In a previous post I wrote that Grant Ronald announced the release of Oracle Forms 11gR2 in our Oracle Open World presentation.  He didn’t announce an exact date, but it would be very soon. Well, here it is! The new version can be downloaded from Oracle Technology Network. The installation footprint is reduced, it can […]

Today I had my session about Forms Modernization. It was a big room and, although it didn’t seem that much, about 80 attendees. Grant Ronald came on stage to explain that Oracle still doesn’t de-support Oracle Forms. In fact, he made an announcement: Oracle Forms 11gR2 is released very soon. The installation would be easier, […]

In last years blog post about Forms 11g Javascript integration I explained how you could call the Google Maps API from forms using JavaScript. I captured that testcase using screentoaster. It seems that this tool has disappeared and all the recorded sessions with it. So, here’s a new video on youtube of this Google Map […]

A great turnout for the seminar: more than 40 interested attendees, a mix audience of IT managers, project managers and developers. Hof ter Delft was a nice location! Grant Ronald, Oracle Senior Group Product Manager for the development tools division, opened the seminar with a keynote presentation. He started with the Oracle Statement of Direction: […]

There are a lot of questions about the future of Oracle Forms and applications that were built in Oracle Forms. During this seminar we will answer these questions and give an overview of the (possible) future of such applications. The seminar will kick off with a keynote by Grant Ronald, about the Oracle Forms strategy. […]

Grant Ronald has just published three references for Oracle Forms upgrades to 11g. Those references can be found on his blog. As Grant writes, it’s pretty easy to upgrade, just recompile and deploy. A big advantage of migrating to Forms 11g is that it opens up the integration of the forms application with other technologies(eg. […]

More and more customers want to upgrade to Forms 11g, but then questions come like: “There’s no Designer 11g, do we have to say goodbye to Designer?” “Can we generate 11g Forms from Designer?” “When we want to keep using Designer, do we have to stay on Forms 10g?” A lot of questions… What can […]

In my previous post I mentioned the problem with compiling a program unit that calls a database function with result cache. Like I wrote in that post, the problem exists in the PL/SQL Client version. There’s a patch available to update the PL/SQL client: Oracle Database Server Version 11.1.0.7 Patch 33. This is a database […]