Re: [Oracle Forms replacement] Ways to start this project

[Jorge Cabezudo Perez]

It also could be called GNU Forms or something like that, using an open source database is a must, people that could be part of the project should assume an specific role, for example, arquitect, programmers, project leaders, dba, etc.

The tools we know exist in the commercial release are:

Forms Builder

Forms Compiler

Forms Runtime (now using an application server)

Forms Converter

Reports Builder

Reports Converter

The software was developed using C/C++ and then Java plus AWT/Swing. The advantage of using PL/SQL inside the Forms Builder is one of the powerful features to build programs faster.

I know that postgress use a similar language and there is a commercial implementation called Enterprise DB which serves like an Oracle replacement for non-critical implementations of Oracle.

The core or kernel of the Forms is a CRUD engine that only needs the name of the tables that the application use. If we can build a program with these feature, it could be a good start point. There is no need of a Builder, we can use ascii text file to implement the forms (or XML), one of the options would be the database, the connection (JDBC?) and so on.

On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 5:25 AM, Justo Perez <address@hidden> wrote:

I m very interesting in this project, and I think that is a good idea to make something like Oracle Forms but using a free DB like Postgres... something like Postgres Forms or like Mysql-forms, more flexible... and engine-form indepent from the DataBase.

What do you think about it ???

El 28 de febrero de 2012 07:33, Jorge Cabezudo Perez <address@hidden> escribió:

Many people are still using Oracle Forms to build their tools because it's features to create forms fast and built-in buttons and options that every user normally use.
I think that people who want an alternative to Oracle Forms must follow a long-term project because the evolution of the Oracle Forms software. The current release is 11g, web-enabled and with webutil library to enable the web-forms access to web-client resources.
Advanced Oracle Forms programmers must give their knolwedge about this product to the best skilled programmers in java or another client-server language.
Forms has an API which can be a start to emulate their functionality. People can write the same functions with differents names.
Also we can use the XML format of the forms builder for reverse-engineer the format.
Oracle Forms has the ability to use another database because of its transaction and database triggers replacement.
Hope people give a chance to start this interesting project.

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