The document outlines strategies for modernizing legacy applications, specifically Oracle Forms, to mobile platforms. It emphasizes the importance of having a mobile strategy and discusses tools and frameworks available for mobile development, such as Oracle Mobile Framework and Oracle Mobile Suite. Key considerations include understanding user needs, device capabilities, and developing a service layer to expose existing systems as web services.

1. Bring Your Legacy Applications
to the Mobile World
Mia Urman, AuraPlayer
miauram@AuraPlayer.com

2. Mia Urman
miaurman@auraplayer.com
• Oracle Development Geek for 15 years.
• 6 years at Oracle as a senior support analyst and local product
manager of Forms and ADF.
• CEO and Founder of AuraPlayer - Addressing Oracle Forms
modernization challenges encountered at blue chip customers
• Board member of ODTUG, Leader of the ilOUG Oracle
Developer Group and presenter of Oracle tools at international
conferences OOW, Kscope, UKOUG …

3. − What is your current Oracle Forms / Oracle EBS Version ?
− Are you interested in mobility?
− Have you begun to think about mobile strategy?
− Do you have devices in the company today? What type -
Tablet or smartphone?
− What OS will they need to support - iOS / Android or also
Window CE / Blackberry?
− Do you have Mobile developers in house?
About You

4. Today’s Plan
Building a Legacy to Mobile Strategy
– Why Go Mobile?
– Things to Consider
The Tools
– Introducing Oracle Mobile Framework
– Understanding Architecture
The Challenge
– How we do it
Moving Forward

6. GLOBAL MOBILE
3G SUBSCRIBERS
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7. Enterprise Mobility!
TWO THIRDS OF THE WORKFORCE
WILL OWN A SMARTPHONE BY 2016,
AND 40% OF THE WORKFORCE
WILL BE MOBILE"
SOURCE: GARTNER 2013"

8. Building Your Mobile Strategy

9. Do you have a Mobile Strategy?

10. Understand your business from Users
“Tell Me More About That”
• Observe real end users doing real work:
Can we make them more productive?
• Watch surrounding and environmental
challenges: Can we improve employees
user experience.
• Are users missing data to do their jobs?
• Enhance data gathering: cameras, SMS,
social media, personal , location, voice

11. Analyze Mobile Requirements
• What OS: iOS / Android / Windows
• Device type, Screen size
• Device Features / Capabilities
• Offline / Connected
• Processing power
• BYOD?
• Types of Users – Occasional, Internal/external
• Type of Applications – Browser Based / Hybrid

12. • No mouse, Function keys
• Using gestures
• Harder to type
• Smaller screen / Less screens
• Difficult to touch small elements
• Slower network – Disconnects
• Security
Consider Mobile Challenges

13. Are you ready for mobile?
• Devices
• New development tools and environments
• Xcode / Android
• Development machines
• Mobile developers
• Mobile Infrastructure
• Security
• Service Bus
• Load

14. Legacy to Mobile Strategy

15. Mobile Strategy
“We don’t need mobile for that system…”

16. Mobile Strategy
“We’ll just use our existing web application…”

17. Mobile Strategy
“We can run our system using Remote Desktop…”

18. DO NOT run FORMS on the mobile
run your BUSINESS on the mobile

19. MOBILIZE instead!

20. MOBILIZE instead!

21. Mobile Application
Framework
Oracle Mobile
Suite
Oracle Mobile
Cloud Services
Oracle’s Mobility Products
Oracle Mobile
Security Suite
Service Bus /
SOA Suite

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24. Wizard Based Mobile Development
Deploy to iOS or Android

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26. CarouselT-Maps
ListView
Gauge
Charts
GeoMap
Basic Components Forms

27. Components

28. Business Services Development
§ Code logic with Java
§ Lightweight JVM
§ Easy access to Remote - Web service
– SOAP
– REST XML, REST JSON
§ Local Business Logic
– Java Classes
– SQLite DB - Portable, lightweight relational database

29. Do you still carry around one of
these?

30. Device Features Interaction
§ Leverages Apache Cordova
§ Drag and drop to use
– Email
– SMS
– Contacts
– GPS
– Camera
§ Or access programmatically
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32. Data Caching Challenges
§ Mobile devices can lose/turn off connectivity
§ Offline access to data is a common requirement
§ But it will increase the complexity of your application
§ If you cache data locally you must consider
– When to cache the data
– How much data to cache
– When to synchronize updates
– Recording the order of updates
– How to deal with synchronization conflicts
– Security of the data if the device is lost
Security

33. How Do We Do It ?

34. • Understanding the business process we want to translate to the small
screen.
• Selecting what input and output data we to run the business process.
How We Do It: Step 1
Define Business Process and Data
• Identifying expected results
What output data and messages do we want to
receive from the Forms system
• Decide Navigation of user through
the app

35. • Expose business processes as services
• Use pre-built APIs supplied by providers to build connected systems
• Create your own Services using development tools
How We Do It: Step 2
Create the Service Layer

36. Creating a PLSQL Service Jdeveloper
Tutorial
• Create ADF DataControls for Webservice URL – REST/SOAP

37. Introducing AuraPlayer
Unlock Oracle Forms Systems as Services
Expose existing systems
as Webservices without writing one
line of code
Same System Many UI / Devices

38. Oracle
11g DB
DMZ
External Network
FireWall
Internal Network
Desktop
Solution Architecture
One System – For both Desktop and Any UI

39. Create an Oracle Forms Service Layer

40. • Create AMX pages and design new mobile UI
How We Do It: Step 3
Create Mobile UI - Jdeveloper

41. How We Do It: Step 4
Define TaskFlow with Validations
• Define the navigation flow between the pages
• Add validations that should occur upon success or failure of events

42. Let’s See it in Action
Demo time!

43. ü Define the Business Process
ü Expose the system as a Webservice
ü Create the UI and Navigation
ü Run Your Mobile App!
ü ADF Mobile on iPad Demo
Demo
Oracle Forms to Mobile: The Process

44. Moving Forward

45. Protect Enterprise Information
Reaching Mobile
Devices.
Access Enterprise
Information
Implementing a Mobile Strategy
Key Themes
Integration
Mobile
Strategy
Security
Multiplatform
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46. Moving Forward
Considerations For Modernization Projects
• Asses Your Requirements
• What business processes do we need to mobilize
• What platforms do we need to deploy to?
• Analysis of Your Existing System
• Where does the business logic sit today?
• What data will I need the go
• Define Mobilization Goals
• Wire framing
• Timeline and Budget
• Decide on Implementation Method
• MAF, HTML5, iOS/Android

47. My Blogs
§ Tips and Tricks
§ Common Bugs
§ How to documents
§ Presentations
www.ADFMobileInfo.com
www.OracleFormsInfo.com

48. More Information
§ Mia Urman - miaurman@auraplayer.com
@miaurman
§ Mobile on OTN
§ Oracle Mobile Blog
§ Oracle Forms Community Blog
§ @Jdeveloper, Facebook.com/Jdeveloper
§ AuraPlayer – www.auraplayer.com or info@auraplayer.com @auraplayer