Grid computing uses low-cost servers and modular storage to balance workloads and provide capacity on demand. Oracle's grid products include the Oracle Database, Application Server, and Enterprise Manager. Oracle Application Server provides services for building and deploying web applications. The Oracle Developer Suite includes tools for application development and business intelligence such as Forms Developer and Reports. Forms Services allows deployment of Forms applications to a web environment.
This document introduces Oracle Forms Developer and Oracle Forms Services. It describes how Oracle 10g products implement grid computing through a software infrastructure that uses low-cost servers and modular storage to balance workloads and provide capacity on demand. It outlines the components of Oracle Application Server 10g and Oracle Developer Suite 10g and describes the features of Oracle Forms Services and Oracle Forms Developer, including their architecture and benefits. It also provides an overview of the course application, which is a customer and order entry application for Summit Office Supply.
Working in the Forms Developer Environment provides an overview of key concepts for navigating and customizing the Forms Builder interface. It describes Forms Builder components like the Object Navigator, Property Palette, and Layout Editor. It also covers setting environment variables for design and run time, running a form from Forms Builder, and using the online help facilities. The document aims to help users describe Forms Builder components, navigate the interface, identify main form objects, customize Forms Builder sessions, and identify main Forms executables.
WebUtil is a utility that enables Forms developers to interact with client machines from PL/SQL code. It provides functions for opening file dialogs, reading/writing files, executing OS commands, performing OLE automation, and obtaining client info. To use WebUtil, developers attach its library and subclass its object group, then can call functions after the form starts to interact with the client, such as opening a file dialog, reading an image into the form, or creating/opening a file on the client.
The document discusses debugging triggers in Oracle Forms Builder. It describes the components of the Debug Console used for debugging, including the stack, variables, watch, form values, PL/SQL packages, and breakpoints panels. It explains how to run a form in debug mode, set breakpoints in client and stored code, step through code, and view variable values while debugging.
This document describes how to run a Forms application using Oracle Application Server Containers for J2EE (OC4J). It explains that OC4J is used to run Forms applications on the development machine and test them in a web browser. When running a form, the Forms Client applet displays in the browser while the Forms Listener Servlet and Runtime Engine handle processing on the application server. Users can navigate forms and query, insert, update, and delete records in different operation modes.
1. The document introduces multiple form applications in Oracle Forms, where one form can call another form and share data.
2. Data can be shared between forms using global variables, parameter lists, global record groups, or PL/SQL variables in shared libraries.
3. Benefits of multiple form applications include easier debugging, modularity, and improved performance and scalability.
Define triggers
Identify the different trigger categories
Plan the type and scope of triggers in a form
Describe the properties that affect the behavior of a trigger
This document discusses supplementing the functionality of items in Oracle Forms applications using triggers and built-in functions. It describes various item interaction triggers that can be used with different item types. It also explains how to use built-in functions to populate lists, images, trees, and interact with JavaBeans from triggers. Common tasks covered include checking checkboxes, loading images, creating hierarchical trees, and registering beans. The document provides examples of triggers and built-ins for different form interaction scenarios.
This document introduces Oracle Forms Developer and Oracle Forms Services. It describes how Oracle 10g products implement grid computing through a software infrastructure that uses low-cost servers and modular storage to balance workloads and provide capacity on demand. It outlines the components of Oracle Application Server 10g and Oracle Developer Suite 10g and describes the features of Oracle Forms Services and Oracle Forms Developer, including their architecture and benefits. It also provides an overview of the course application, which is a customer and order entry application for Summit Office Supply.
Working in the Forms Developer Environment provides an overview of key concepts for navigating and customizing the Forms Builder interface. It describes Forms Builder components like the Object Navigator, Property Palette, and Layout Editor. It also covers setting environment variables for design and run time, running a form from Forms Builder, and using the online help facilities. The document aims to help users describe Forms Builder components, navigate the interface, identify main form objects, customize Forms Builder sessions, and identify main Forms executables.
WebUtil is a utility that enables Forms developers to interact with client machines from PL/SQL code. It provides functions for opening file dialogs, reading/writing files, executing OS commands, performing OLE automation, and obtaining client info. To use WebUtil, developers attach its library and subclass its object group, then can call functions after the form starts to interact with the client, such as opening a file dialog, reading an image into the form, or creating/opening a file on the client.
The document discusses debugging triggers in Oracle Forms Builder. It describes the components of the Debug Console used for debugging, including the stack, variables, watch, form values, PL/SQL packages, and breakpoints panels. It explains how to run a form in debug mode, set breakpoints in client and stored code, step through code, and view variable values while debugging.
This document describes how to run a Forms application using Oracle Application Server Containers for J2EE (OC4J). It explains that OC4J is used to run Forms applications on the development machine and test them in a web browser. When running a form, the Forms Client applet displays in the browser while the Forms Listener Servlet and Runtime Engine handle processing on the application server. Users can navigate forms and query, insert, update, and delete records in different operation modes.
1. The document introduces multiple form applications in Oracle Forms, where one form can call another form and share data.
2. Data can be shared between forms using global variables, parameter lists, global record groups, or PL/SQL variables in shared libraries.
3. Benefits of multiple form applications include easier debugging, modularity, and improved performance and scalability.
Define triggers
Identify the different trigger categories
Plan the type and scope of triggers in a form
Describe the properties that affect the behavior of a trigger
This document discusses supplementing the functionality of items in Oracle Forms applications using triggers and built-in functions. It describes various item interaction triggers that can be used with different item types. It also explains how to use built-in functions to populate lists, images, trees, and interact with JavaBeans from triggers. Common tasks covered include checking checkboxes, loading images, creating hierarchical trees, and registering beans. The document provides examples of triggers and built-ins for different form interaction scenarios.
Windows display content canvases and allow viewing one canvas at a time. Content canvases are surfaces that display within a window. Each window must have at least one content canvas. You can create additional windows in the Object Navigator and display different canvases or the same form module across multiple windows and canvases. Properties of windows and canvases allow setting positions, sizes, names and other attributes.
The document provides instructions for using Oracle Forms Developer 10g to build internet applications, including an instructor guide with objectives, course content, and chapters on creating forms, working in the Forms Builder environment, creating data blocks and items, and more. It contains proprietary information from Oracle Corporation and is protected by copyright law.
This document discusses creating and modifying master-detail forms in Dynamics 365 Business Central. It covers creating relationships between data blocks, running a master-detail form with automatic linking and deletion rules, and modifying data blocks and their layouts using wizards in reentrant mode. The key points are that relationships can be set up manually or with a wizard, forms can be run with default coordination properties, and data blocks and layouts can be customized manually or with wizards in a non-destructive way.
This document discusses writing flexible code that is reusable, generic, and avoids hard-coded object names to make maintenance easier. It describes using system variables to reference the current context and status. Built-in subprograms like GET_ and SET_ can retrieve and set properties of objects. Objects can be referenced by internal ID found using functions like FIND_, or indirectly using COPY and NAME_IN to pass values without hard-coding names. Flexible code is more efficient and reusable across applications.
This document provides an overview of LOVs (lists of values) and editors in Oracle Forms and describes how to create them. LOVs allow selecting a value for a text item from a dynamic list, and are created from a database query. Editors override the default editor for a text item and allow customizing the editing window. The document explains that LOVs are easiest to design using the LOV Wizard, which guides selecting columns and properties. Editors are created in the Object Navigator and associated with a text item's properties. Practice questions at the end involve creating an LOV attached to a text item and an Editor attached to another item.
This document discusses navigation in forms. It distinguishes between internal and external navigation, and describes how to control navigation with properties of the form, block, and item. It explains navigation triggers that fire during or after navigation, and navigation built-ins that can be used in triggers except those that fire during navigation. These include GO_FORM, GO_BLOCK, GO_RECORD, GO_ITEM, NEXT_BLOCK, and others. The document also provides examples of setting properties and using triggers and built-ins to control navigation flow.
This document discusses various methods for reusing objects and code in Oracle Forms applications, including property classes, object groups, copying and subclassing objects, object libraries, SmartClasses, and reusing PL/SQL code through triggers, program units, and libraries. Property classes allow inheriting properties, object groups make related objects easy to reuse, and object libraries and SmartClasses simplify sharing reusable components. PL/SQL code can be reused by copying, subclassing, defining program units, or creating libraries.
This document discusses how to create a basic form module in Oracle Forms. It covers creating an empty module, adding a data block using the Data Block Wizard and Layout Wizard, saving and compiling the form module, different file formats for storing modules, and deploying a form module to the application server. The key steps are to create an empty module, add a data block with the wizard, save and compile the form, move the files to the application server, and generate the module to run it in the browser.
Non-input items that can be created include display items, image items, buttons, calculated items, hierarchical tree items, and bean area items. Display items and image items show information without input, buttons initiate actions, calculated items use formulas or summaries, tree items show hierarchical data, and bean areas execute Java code. These item types are created by changing an existing item's type or using tools in the Layout Editor and setting properties specific to each item type.
This document discusses working with data blocks and frames in Oracle Forms. It covers identifying components of the Property Palette, managing object properties, creating and using Visual Attributes, controlling data block and frame properties, and creating and deleting data blocks. The key topics covered are using the Property Palette to modify object properties, setting properties to control data block behavior and appearance, setting frame properties, and creating and deleting data blocks.
This document discusses validation in Oracle Forms. It explains that validation occurs at the form, block, record and item levels. Forms tracks an item or record's validation status as new, changed or valid. Validation can be controlled using properties, triggers and pluggable Java components. Client-side validation with pluggable Java components improves performance over server-side validation. The document also outlines how to validate data using list of values, triggers and restricting input to certain data types.
1. Query processing involves pre-query and post-query triggers firing before and after records are fetched from the database table into the block.
2. Query triggers can screen query conditions by setting WHERE clause properties or assigning values as criteria in pre-query triggers. They can also supplement query results by populating non-database items or performing calculations in post-query triggers.
3. You can override default query processing by using transactional triggers and check the SYSTEM.MODE variable to control trigger actions based on the form's query status.
This document discusses run-time messages and alerts in Oracle Forms. It describes how Forms displays messages to inform users of events, and how to control message severity and suppress messages. There are different types of messages - informative, error, working, and application. It also discusses handling run-time errors of built-in subprograms, and using triggers to intercept system messages. The document covers setting properties of alerts, and controlling alerts with built-in functions. Finally, it discusses trapping database server errors using built-ins or exceptions.
This document provides an introduction to Oracle Forms Builder, a tool used to develop data entry and query screens. It discusses Forms Builder in client/server mode using a 2-tier architecture and in web mode using a 3-tier architecture. The document outlines some key features of Forms Builder including rapid application development, reusable objects, and improved developer productivity. It also provides instructions on setting user preferences and starting Forms Builder.
This document provides an overview of the new extensibility features in Oracle Warehouse Builder 11gR2 for supporting non-Oracle data sources. Key changes include an extensible platform framework for representing data types, extensions to the mapping model and code generation, and enhancements to the Custom Metadata Interface for defining custom metadata extraction. It describes the components needed to define a new platform, extract metadata from it using the CMI, and generate code for data movement. Examples of extending OWB in this way will be available on the Oracle SDK site.
***First Half***
Introduction to Oracle Fusion Middleware and Oracle ADF
Getting started with JDeveloper
Building a Business Model with ADF Business Components
Querying and persisting data
Exposing Data
Declaratively Customizing Data Services
Programmatically Customizing Data Services
Validating User Inputs
***Second Half***
Understanding UI Technology
Binding UI Components to Data
Planning the User Interface
Passing values between UI Elements
Responding to Application Events
Implementing Transactional Capabilities
The document discusses the technical architecture changes between Oracle Applications 11i and Release 12 (R12). Key points include:
- R12 uses new technology components like Application Server 10g and upgraded database to 10gR2.
- The file system structure is updated with a new instance home directory to separate configurations from code and data.
- Multi-Org Access Control is enhanced to allow accessing and processing data across multiple operating units from a single responsibility.
- Concurrent processing is improved with the ability to restart failed request sets and submit request sets through a new OAF interface.
This document provides release notes for Oracle Application Express Release 4.2. It outlines new features such as increased size limits for data types, identity columns, and invisible columns. It also describes changes in behavior including compatibility mode, mail retry delays, and updated JavaScript libraries. The document provides information to help developers understand changes between releases and ensure applications continue working as expected.
- Oracle Form Builder is a component of Oracle Developer/2000 that is used to create event-driven applications to enter, access, change, or delete data from an Oracle database.
- A Forms application consists of forms, menus, and libraries. Forms uses triggers, processes, and events to control user interactions and database transactions.
- The main components of a Forms application include windows, canvases, blocks, items, triggers, alerts, lists of values (LOVs), editors, parameters, program units, libraries, and object groups.
This document provides an overview of using SQL SELECT statements to retrieve data from Oracle databases. It covers the basic capabilities and syntax of SELECT statements, including selecting all or specific columns, arithmetic expressions, column aliases, and concatenation operators. It also describes the difference between SQL statements, which manipulate database data, and iSQLPlus commands, which are used to interact with the iSQLPlus environment but do not change database values. The document demonstrates basic SELECT statements and using iSQLPlus to view table structures, run SQL scripts, and set preferences.
This document discusses different types of input items in Oracle Forms, including check boxes, list items, and radio groups. It describes how to create each type by converting an existing item or using tools in the Layout Editor. Properties specific to each input type can be set, such as list elements for a list item or radio buttons for a radio group. Mapping other values allows non-listed values to be assigned an item display value. The overall goal is to learn how to create different input items that accept user input in Oracle Forms.
Windows display content canvases and allow viewing one canvas at a time. Content canvases are surfaces that display within a window. Each window must have at least one content canvas. You can create additional windows in the Object Navigator and display different canvases or the same form module across multiple windows and canvases. Properties of windows and canvases allow setting positions, sizes, names and other attributes.
The document provides instructions for using Oracle Forms Developer 10g to build internet applications, including an instructor guide with objectives, course content, and chapters on creating forms, working in the Forms Builder environment, creating data blocks and items, and more. It contains proprietary information from Oracle Corporation and is protected by copyright law.
This document discusses creating and modifying master-detail forms in Dynamics 365 Business Central. It covers creating relationships between data blocks, running a master-detail form with automatic linking and deletion rules, and modifying data blocks and their layouts using wizards in reentrant mode. The key points are that relationships can be set up manually or with a wizard, forms can be run with default coordination properties, and data blocks and layouts can be customized manually or with wizards in a non-destructive way.
This document discusses writing flexible code that is reusable, generic, and avoids hard-coded object names to make maintenance easier. It describes using system variables to reference the current context and status. Built-in subprograms like GET_ and SET_ can retrieve and set properties of objects. Objects can be referenced by internal ID found using functions like FIND_, or indirectly using COPY and NAME_IN to pass values without hard-coding names. Flexible code is more efficient and reusable across applications.
This document provides an overview of LOVs (lists of values) and editors in Oracle Forms and describes how to create them. LOVs allow selecting a value for a text item from a dynamic list, and are created from a database query. Editors override the default editor for a text item and allow customizing the editing window. The document explains that LOVs are easiest to design using the LOV Wizard, which guides selecting columns and properties. Editors are created in the Object Navigator and associated with a text item's properties. Practice questions at the end involve creating an LOV attached to a text item and an Editor attached to another item.
This document discusses navigation in forms. It distinguishes between internal and external navigation, and describes how to control navigation with properties of the form, block, and item. It explains navigation triggers that fire during or after navigation, and navigation built-ins that can be used in triggers except those that fire during navigation. These include GO_FORM, GO_BLOCK, GO_RECORD, GO_ITEM, NEXT_BLOCK, and others. The document also provides examples of setting properties and using triggers and built-ins to control navigation flow.
This document discusses various methods for reusing objects and code in Oracle Forms applications, including property classes, object groups, copying and subclassing objects, object libraries, SmartClasses, and reusing PL/SQL code through triggers, program units, and libraries. Property classes allow inheriting properties, object groups make related objects easy to reuse, and object libraries and SmartClasses simplify sharing reusable components. PL/SQL code can be reused by copying, subclassing, defining program units, or creating libraries.
This document discusses how to create a basic form module in Oracle Forms. It covers creating an empty module, adding a data block using the Data Block Wizard and Layout Wizard, saving and compiling the form module, different file formats for storing modules, and deploying a form module to the application server. The key steps are to create an empty module, add a data block with the wizard, save and compile the form, move the files to the application server, and generate the module to run it in the browser.
Non-input items that can be created include display items, image items, buttons, calculated items, hierarchical tree items, and bean area items. Display items and image items show information without input, buttons initiate actions, calculated items use formulas or summaries, tree items show hierarchical data, and bean areas execute Java code. These item types are created by changing an existing item's type or using tools in the Layout Editor and setting properties specific to each item type.
This document discusses working with data blocks and frames in Oracle Forms. It covers identifying components of the Property Palette, managing object properties, creating and using Visual Attributes, controlling data block and frame properties, and creating and deleting data blocks. The key topics covered are using the Property Palette to modify object properties, setting properties to control data block behavior and appearance, setting frame properties, and creating and deleting data blocks.
This document discusses validation in Oracle Forms. It explains that validation occurs at the form, block, record and item levels. Forms tracks an item or record's validation status as new, changed or valid. Validation can be controlled using properties, triggers and pluggable Java components. Client-side validation with pluggable Java components improves performance over server-side validation. The document also outlines how to validate data using list of values, triggers and restricting input to certain data types.
1. Query processing involves pre-query and post-query triggers firing before and after records are fetched from the database table into the block.
2. Query triggers can screen query conditions by setting WHERE clause properties or assigning values as criteria in pre-query triggers. They can also supplement query results by populating non-database items or performing calculations in post-query triggers.
3. You can override default query processing by using transactional triggers and check the SYSTEM.MODE variable to control trigger actions based on the form's query status.
This document discusses run-time messages and alerts in Oracle Forms. It describes how Forms displays messages to inform users of events, and how to control message severity and suppress messages. There are different types of messages - informative, error, working, and application. It also discusses handling run-time errors of built-in subprograms, and using triggers to intercept system messages. The document covers setting properties of alerts, and controlling alerts with built-in functions. Finally, it discusses trapping database server errors using built-ins or exceptions.
This document provides an introduction to Oracle Forms Builder, a tool used to develop data entry and query screens. It discusses Forms Builder in client/server mode using a 2-tier architecture and in web mode using a 3-tier architecture. The document outlines some key features of Forms Builder including rapid application development, reusable objects, and improved developer productivity. It also provides instructions on setting user preferences and starting Forms Builder.
This document provides an overview of the new extensibility features in Oracle Warehouse Builder 11gR2 for supporting non-Oracle data sources. Key changes include an extensible platform framework for representing data types, extensions to the mapping model and code generation, and enhancements to the Custom Metadata Interface for defining custom metadata extraction. It describes the components needed to define a new platform, extract metadata from it using the CMI, and generate code for data movement. Examples of extending OWB in this way will be available on the Oracle SDK site.
***First Half***
Introduction to Oracle Fusion Middleware and Oracle ADF
Getting started with JDeveloper
Building a Business Model with ADF Business Components
Querying and persisting data
Exposing Data
Declaratively Customizing Data Services
Programmatically Customizing Data Services
Validating User Inputs
***Second Half***
Understanding UI Technology
Binding UI Components to Data
Planning the User Interface
Passing values between UI Elements
Responding to Application Events
Implementing Transactional Capabilities
The document discusses the technical architecture changes between Oracle Applications 11i and Release 12 (R12). Key points include:
- R12 uses new technology components like Application Server 10g and upgraded database to 10gR2.
- The file system structure is updated with a new instance home directory to separate configurations from code and data.
- Multi-Org Access Control is enhanced to allow accessing and processing data across multiple operating units from a single responsibility.
- Concurrent processing is improved with the ability to restart failed request sets and submit request sets through a new OAF interface.
This document provides release notes for Oracle Application Express Release 4.2. It outlines new features such as increased size limits for data types, identity columns, and invisible columns. It also describes changes in behavior including compatibility mode, mail retry delays, and updated JavaScript libraries. The document provides information to help developers understand changes between releases and ensure applications continue working as expected.
- Oracle Form Builder is a component of Oracle Developer/2000 that is used to create event-driven applications to enter, access, change, or delete data from an Oracle database.
- A Forms application consists of forms, menus, and libraries. Forms uses triggers, processes, and events to control user interactions and database transactions.
- The main components of a Forms application include windows, canvases, blocks, items, triggers, alerts, lists of values (LOVs), editors, parameters, program units, libraries, and object groups.
This document provides an overview of using SQL SELECT statements to retrieve data from Oracle databases. It covers the basic capabilities and syntax of SELECT statements, including selecting all or specific columns, arithmetic expressions, column aliases, and concatenation operators. It also describes the difference between SQL statements, which manipulate database data, and iSQLPlus commands, which are used to interact with the iSQLPlus environment but do not change database values. The document demonstrates basic SELECT statements and using iSQLPlus to view table structures, run SQL scripts, and set preferences.
This document discusses different types of input items in Oracle Forms, including check boxes, list items, and radio groups. It describes how to create each type by converting an existing item or using tools in the Layout Editor. Properties specific to each input type can be set, such as list elements for a list item or radio buttons for a radio group. Mapping other values allows non-listed values to be assigned an item display value. The overall goal is to learn how to create different input items that accept user input in Oracle Forms.
This document discusses various methods for reusing objects and code in Oracle Forms, including:
- Using property classes to inherit properties and standardize objects
- Grouping related objects into object groups for easy reuse
- Creating object libraries to share reusable components between forms
- Marking objects as SmartClasses for rapid, standardized application
It also covers reusing PL/SQL code through copying, subclassing, and defining library program units to call code from multiple places.
The document provides an overview of the Oracle Forms Builder development environment. It describes Forms Builder components like the Object Navigator and Layout Editor. It explains how to navigate the Forms Builder interface, identify main form objects, customize Forms Builder sessions, use online help, and run forms. It also covers Forms modules types, setting runtime environment variables, and testing forms using the Run Form button.
This document discusses working with text items in Oracle Forms. It describes how to create text items, modify their appearance and properties, control their data and navigation behavior, and add functionality. Key topics covered include modifying font, color, and prompt properties; controlling data type, length, and initial values; and displaying help messages.
This document discusses run-time messages and alerts in Oracle Forms. It describes how to handle errors from built-in subprograms, control system messages, create alerts, and handle database server errors. Key points covered include using FORM_SUCCESS to check for errors, the four types of Forms messages, and built-ins for controlling messages and alerts like SET_ALERT_PROPERTY and SHOW_ALERT. It also addresses trapping database errors using triggers or exception handlers.
This document discusses creating and using triggers in Oracle Forms Builder. It describes the steps to create a trigger, including selecting a scope, invoking the trigger list, defining code in the PL/SQL editor, and compiling. Common trigger types like When-Button-Pressed and When-Window-Closed are described. The document also covers using built-in subprograms and variables in trigger code and limitations on certain built-ins.
This document discusses list of values (LOVs) and editors in Oracle Forms Builder. It describes how to create LOVs and editors manually or using wizards, set their properties, and associate them with text items in a form. LOVs provide dynamic lists for text items, pulling from a supporting record group or query. Editors override the default editor for text items to allow for custom formatting and functionality.
This document discusses how to create a master-detail form in Oracle Forms. It describes establishing relationships between data blocks, defining join conditions, setting deletion properties, and modifying block structure and layout. Key points covered include using the Data Block Wizard to create relationships, automatic block coordination when running the form, and using the Layout Wizard and Data Block Wizard in reentrant mode to modify existing blocks. The overall goal is to teach the reader how to build a basic master-detail form and manage the relationships between related data.
This document discusses writing flexible code in Oracle Forms. It describes flexible code as code that is reusable, generic, avoids hardcoded object names, and makes maintenance easier. It recommends using system variables and built-in functions to reference objects by ID or indirectly. This allows code to be written that is more efficient and generic. Specific techniques covered include using system variables for context, GET/SET properties functions, and functions like FIND and COPY to work with object IDs.
This document discusses triggers in Oracle Forms Builder. It defines triggers as event-activated program units. It describes different trigger categories including block processing, interface events, and validation triggers. It outlines the key components of a trigger as the event that fires it, the PL/SQL code that executes, and the scope level (form, block or item). It also addresses setting the execution hierarchy to control trigger firing order.
The document discusses transaction processing in Oracle Forms. It explains that Forms uses transactions to apply changes to the database, which involves two phases - post and commit. During commit, it validates the form and blocks, performs the necessary DML operations like insert, update, delete, and fires various commit triggers. Forms supports supplementing the transaction processing using triggers at different stages. It also discusses getting and setting the commit status, and using array DML to reduce network traffic.
This document discusses windows and content canvases in Forms Builder. It describes windows as containers that display content canvases, which are surfaces that hold visual objects. It explains how to create new windows and canvases, set their properties, display a form module across multiple windows and canvases, and use windows and canvases to modularize form contents.
The document discusses different types of canvases in Oracle Forms including stacked, toolbar, and tab canvases. It describes how stacked canvases overlay content canvases, toolbar canvases provide standard buttons and elements, and tab canvases organize information across pages. It provides instructions for creating these canvases, setting their properties, and placing items on tab pages.
This document discusses navigation in Oracle Forms applications. It describes internal and external navigation, controlling navigation with object properties, and using navigation triggers. Key points covered include setting the first navigation block or item properties, writing pre- and post-triggers for forms, blocks, records and items, and using built-in navigation functions like GO_FORM and NEXT_RECORD in triggers. The summary reiterates that navigation can be controlled through properties or triggers, and outlines the different types of navigation triggers and built-ins that can be used.
This document provides instructions on creating non-input items in Oracle Forms, including display items, image items, buttons, calculated items, hierarchical tree items, and bean area items. It describes the properties and functions of each item type, and provides steps for creating examples of each type. The goal is to teach the reader how to identify non-input item types and create various kinds of static and dynamic content displays within Oracle Forms applications.
This document discusses validation in Oracle Forms. It explains that Forms validates data at the form, block, record, and item levels. Validation occurs when the enter key is pressed or when a trigger leaves a validation unit. The document also discusses controlling validation through properties, triggers, and pluggable Java components, as well as tracking validation status. It provides examples of validating user input and using client-side validation.
This document discusses query triggers in Oracle Forms. It describes the query processing steps, the different types of query triggers (pre-query and post-query triggers), and how to write triggers to screen and supplement queries. It also covers obtaining query information at runtime, overriding default query processing, and controlling trigger actions based on the form's query status.
WebUtil is a utility that enables client-side functionality on Win32 clients. It consists of Java classes, Forms objects, and a PL/SQL library. WebUtil provides benefits such as only requiring PL/SQL coding knowledge, free download, and easy integration into Forms applications. To integrate WebUtil, a developer attaches the WebUtil library and subclasses the WebUtil object group. Then WebUtil functions can be used to interact with the client, such as opening file dialogs, reading/writing files, executing commands, and automating applications.
This document discusses adding functionality to items in Oracle Forms through triggers and built-in functions. It covers using triggers to interact with checkboxes, lists, buttons, images and trees. It also discusses populating items from databases, files and Java beans. Built-ins allow accessing properties, invoking methods and handling events of Java beans from Forms triggers. The overall aim is to supplement the functionality of both input and non-input items.
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This document summarizes Marc Sewtz's presentation on new features in Oracle APEX 18.1. Key points include:
- Upgrades to Oracle JET, jQuery, and jQuery UI to newer versions to adopt new visualizations and stay supported. Built-in APEX components were updated but custom code may need changes.
- A new low code application wizard to simplify creating applications with options for frameworks, themes, and page types.
- Enhancements to the interactive grid, page designer, and new REST capabilities including a REST workshop.
Ankur Agrawal has over 4 years of experience working with Oracle Applications 12.1.3, with expertise in modules like Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Purchasing, Inventory, and Order Management. He has extensive experience in programming with PL/SQL, SQL, XML, and developing forms, reports, workflows, and interfaces. Some of his projects include an implementation for Posten Norge AS in Norway, a support project for Air Liquide, and developing punchout functionality and interfaces between Oracle and other systems. He is Oracle certified and has worked on projects across various industries with tight deadlines.
The document provides an overview of Oracle Forms Developer and Forms Services, describing them as development tools for building enterprise applications that can deploy forms-based applications to Java clients in a web environment. It also discusses the Oracle Application Server architecture and how Forms Services fits within it as a component that allows forms applications to be run within a browser.
The document introduces Oracle Forms Developer and Oracle Forms Services. It discusses how Forms Services is a component of Oracle Application Server that deploys Forms applications to Java clients in a web environment. It also overview key features of Forms Developer, which is a development environment for building internet business applications providing data entry and queries capabilities. The document uses the example of a Summit Office Supply application to illustrate these concepts.
The document provides an overview of Oracle APEX (Application Express), a low-code development framework for building database-centric web applications. Some key points covered include:
- APEX allows developing desktop and mobile web apps using visual page design tools while leveraging SQL skills and database capabilities.
- It has a browser-based IDE and stores app definitions as metadata in the database with no client software needed.
- APEX applications can be developed locally or in the cloud and benefit from features like built-in security, authentication, validation and more.
- Sumanth Ankem has over 4 years of experience working with Oracle Applications R12 and 11i, including modules like PO, INV, OM, AP, AR, and GL. He has expertise in developing interfaces, reports, stored procedures, and more.
- He is proficient in technologies like SQL, PL/SQL, XML, and tools like Developer, Discoverer, SQL*Loader, and TOAD. He has worked on multiple implementation projects for clients in various industries.
- His responsibilities have included developing conversions, reports, alerts, and documents as well as testing, support, and providing solutions to production issues.
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Introduction
Overview
This course teaches you how to build effective and professional form applications using Oracle Forms Developer.
This lesson identifies the key features of Oracle Application Server 10g, Oracle Developer Suite 10g, Oracle Forms Services, Oracle Forms Developer, and the course application model and contents.
There are many terms used in this course that may be unfamiliar to you. For a glossary containing definitions of many of these terms, see http://www.oracle.com/glossary.
Internet Computing Solutions
Oracle offers a range of tools and deployment options for Internet computing. Different types of developers and applications require different toolsets.
Enterprise application developers need a declarative model-based approach. Oracle Designer and Oracle Forms Developer provide this solution. This course focuses on how you can use Oracle Forms Developer to rapidly build scalable, high-performance applications for the Internet and then deploy the applications with Oracle Forms Services.
Component developers need different tools and methods. For these developers, Java is the language of choice. Oracle’s solution is JDeveloper.
For Web site developers and content publishers who want to build self-service dynamic Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) applications for Web sites, Oracle Portal provides an easy-to-use development environment that resides entirely inside an Oracle database. Portal provides a browser-based environment from development through deployment of an application.
For Management Information System (MIS) developers and end users, there is the Oracle Business Intelligence toolset. Oracle Reports Developer, Oracle Reports Services, Oracle Discoverer, and Oracle Express provide the whole range for reporting, analysis, and trending facilities.
Plugging into the Grid
When you plug in a lamp, you have no knowledge of the source of the electricity that powers the lamp. You don't know, or even care, where the generator is or how the electric grid is wired. You only know that the bulb lights up on demand.
Grid computing is a concept similar to that of electricity. Its aim is to make computing power as reliable, pervasive, and transparent as a utility.
Enterprise grid computing builds a critical software infrastructure that can run on large numbers of small networked computers at a lower cost than running on large servers. Costs of management and administration are also reduced. The workload is balanced among the machines, and capacity can be added on demand, thus providing for efficient resource sharing.
This is made possible by recent hardware innovations, such as low-cost powerful processors, blade servers, networked storage, and network interconnect technologies. But software powers the grid by creating a single logical entity, such as a database or an application server, from a cluster of machines, and by managing and administering groups of such systems as one.
Oracle Enterprise Grid Computing
In recognition of the significant new capabilities required to power grid computing, Oracle has named its new technology products Oracle 10g, the first major name change since adding Internet capabilities to Oracle8i. Oracle 10g provides the first complete, integrated software infrastructure to power grid computing through every element of the grid—storage, databases, application servers, and applications:
Oracle Database 10g provides:
Real Application Clusters (RAC), which enables a single database to run across multiple clustered nodes in a grid and features Cluster Workload Management to quickly respond to fluctuations in grid workloads
Automatic Storage Management (ASM), which abstracts the details of managing storage to provide sophisticated data provisioning and enables DBAs to manage disk groups rather than many database files
Information provisioning, providing access to information when and where it is needed
A self-managing database, thus reducing the maintenance and tuning tasks of DBAs
Oracle Enterprise Grid Computing (continued)
Oracle Application Server 10g provides:
Application Server Clusters that can pool and virtualize run-time services; all services can be distributed across multiple machines in a grid, and new application server instances can be automatically added and started to deliver capacity on demand
Interaction with Oracle RAC to improve application reliability
Identity management features that provide centralized user administration, which is even more important in a grid environment
Ease of application deployment: Enterprise applications do not need to be redesigned, because when they are deployed on the Oracle Application Server 10g in a grid, the applications benefit immediately from the transparent workload distribution, load balancing, and scheduling necessary to coordinate work across multiple servers. JDeveloper 10g, available in Oracle Developer Suite 10g, enables applications to expose their behavior to other applications and to management tools through standardized interfaces, so that they can communicate with other applications and heterogeneous resources across a grid.
Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g Grid Control is the complete, integrated, central management console and underlying framework that automates administrative tasks across sets of systems in a grid environment. It enables:
Grouping of multiple hardware nodes, databases, application servers, and other targets into single logical entities
Software provisioning that automates installation, configuration, and cloning of Oracle Application Server 10g and Oracle Database 10g across multiple nodes, making it it possible to add capacity as needed or to easily patch and upgrade existing systems
Ease of application deployment: Applications can be deployed once to a single application server instance, registered with the central repository, then automatically deployed to all relevant nodes on the grid, with nodes being synchronized as changes are made.
Application Service Level Monitoring by viewing the availability and performance of the grid infrastructure as a unified whole so that performance or availability issues can be traced throughout the entire application, and the root cause can be determined by drilling down into the infrastructure
Note: For additional information about Oracle’s enterprise grid computing solution, see the Grid Technology Center on OTN: http://otn.oracle.com/tech/grid/index.html.
Oracle 10g Products and Forms Development
Oracle Database: Manages all of your information, such as Word documents, Excel spreadsheets, XML, and images. Oracle tools such as Forms can automatically reuse the database structure and its integrity constraints, which reduces the amount of manual coding.
Oracle Application Server: Runs all of your applications, including Java, wireless, portals, and business intelligence. Using Oracle Application Server, you can deploy and manage in a single application server all applications developed with Oracle Developer Suite. The Oracle Application Server contains Oracle Forms Services, which you use to deploy your Forms applications.
Oracle Developer Suite: Leverages the infrastructure offered by Oracle Application Server and Oracle Database, enabling developers to quickly and easily build scalable, secure, and reliable e-business applications. The suite provides a complete and highly productive development environment for building applications. Oracle Forms Developer, which you use to build Forms applications, is part of Oracle Developer Suite.
Oracle Application Server 10g Architecture
Oracle Application Server 10g has a layered architecture including the following services:
Communication Services: Communication management for a variety of protocols
Application Runtime Services: J2EE Container that provides a common runtime environment for Applications developed as JSPs, Servlets,EJBs, and Web Services
System Services: A common set of runtime services that are necessary for J2EE Applications and Web Services, such as request dispatch and scheduling, resource management, resource pooling,clustering, fault monitoring, transaction management, and messaging
Management Services: A common set of systems management services to monitor the status, performance and faults of the system; to monitor resource consumption and usage; to manage a single instance or cluster of instances; to centrally administer security for users and applications; and to provide a comprehensive directory service framework to manage users
Connectivity Services: Provide connectivity to a variety of systems
Solutions: A comprehensive set of solutions all built on the infrastructure described above including Enterprise Portals, Enterprise Integration, Business Intelligence, Wireless, and ISV Solutions
Oracle Application Server Components
With the components of Oracle Application Server, you can:
Extract and analyze business intelligence: Clickstream, Personalization, Reports Services, Discoverer
Integrate your business: InterConnect, Workflow, Unified Messaging, Internet File System
Create personalized portals: Oracle Portal
Deploy dynamic Web applications: XDK, Web Services, Forms Services, OC4J, HTTP Server
Manage and secure your Web infrastructure: Enterprise Manager, Security, Internet Directory.
What Is Oracle Forms Services?
Oracle Forms Services is a component of Oracle Application Server for delivering Oracle Forms Developer applications to the Internet. Oracle Forms Services automatically provides the infrastructure that is needed to successfully deliver applications on the Internet through built-in services and optimizations.
Oracle Forms Services uses a three-tier architecture to deploy database applications:
The client tier contains the Web browser, where the application is displayed and used.
The middle tier is the application server, where the application logic and server software reside.
The database tier is the database server, where enterprise data is stored.
Forms Services Architecture
Forms Services consists of four major components: the Java client (Forms Client), the Forms Listener Servlet, the Forms Servlet, and the Forms Runtime Engine. You learn about these components in Lesson 2, Running a Forms Developer Application.
When a user runs a forms session over the Web, a thin, Java-based Forms applet is dynamically downloaded from the application server and automatically cached on the Java client machine. The same Java applet code can be used for any form, regardless of size and complexity.
Although Forms Services uses a Java applet for displaying the form on the client browser, the developer does not need to know Java in order to develop and deploy a Forms application.
Benefits of Oracle Developer Suite 10g
The Oracle Developer Suite:
Combines the power of Oracle application development tools and Oracle business intelligence tools.
Provides a standards-based, Java and XML integrated development environment and supports the full application development life-cycle.
Provides flexible and scalable solutions for data warehousing and business Intelligence.
Optimized for Oracle Database and Oracle Application Server 10g
Application Development Features of Oracle Developer Suite 10g
Oracle Developer Suite provides the following features for application development:
Modeling: Oracle Designer provides visual modeling, reverse engineering, and code generation tools. Oracle Developer Suite also supports UML (Unified Modeling Language) by utilizing visual tools for Activity and Class modeling within the JDeveloper component.
Rapid Application Development (RAD): RAD capabilities in Oracle Developer Suite feature integrated builders, re-entrant wizards, live previewers, and property inspectors. The JDeveloper component provides additional productivity through Business Components for Java (BC4J), a built-in J2EE framework.
J2EE and Web Services: Oracle Developer Suite supports the latest J2EE 1.2 APIs, including Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB), Java Server Pages (JSP), and Servlets. Web services support SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol), WSDL (Web Service Definition Language), and UDDI (Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration).
Team Support: Oracle Software Configuration Management provides versioning, dependency management, and impact analysis for all objects and file types.
Business Intelligence Features of Oracle Developer Suite 10g
Oracle Developer Suite 10g provides the following Business Intelligence features:
Extract, transformation, and load (ETL): Oracle Warehouse Builder provides a graphical interface for mapping and transformation. It also provides an extensible framework for integrating a diverse set of data sources and integration with Business Intelligence Tools.
End user query and analysis: With Oracle Discoverer Administrator, you can create and maintain a business-oriented view of the data that supports the Discoverer client tools: Discoverer Plus and Discoverer Viewer (in Oracle Application Server), and Discoverer Desktop (in Oracle Developer Suite).
Enterprise Reporting: Oracle Reports Developer enables the developer to access any data, to publish it in any format, and to send it anywhere. Supported formats include HTML with CSS, PDF, RTF, Postscript, and XML.
What Is Oracle Forms Developer?
Oracle Forms Developer is a productive development environment for building enterprise-class, scalable database applications for the Internet. Oracle Forms Developer provides a set of tools that enable business developers to easily and quickly construct sophisticated database forms and business logic with a minimum of effort.
Oracle Forms Developer uses powerful declarative capabilities to rapidly create applications from database definitions that leverage the tight integration with the Oracle database. The toolset leverages Java technology, promotes reuse, and is designed to allow developers to declaratively build rich user interfaces. Developer productivity is further increased through a single integrated development environment that enables distributed debugging across all tiers, utilizing the same PL/SQL language for both server and client.
Oracle Forms Developer’s tight integration with Oracle Designer enables you to use a productive model-driven development approach. Oracle Forms Developer applications can be automatically generated from business requirements designed in the Oracle Designer modeling environment. These models are stored in the Oracle Repository. Code-level changes made within the Oracle Forms Developer environment can be automatically reverse engineered back into the models, preserving the integrity between the models and the application.
Oracle Forms Developer 10g: Key Features
Tools for Rapid Application Development: You can create and modify applications with little or no code. Productivity is enhanced with wizard-based rapid application development and built-in commands that perform common functions.
Application Partitioning: You can place individual PL/SQL program units on the database server or in the application, whichever is most suitable. You can drag-and-drop objects between modules and the database server.
Flexible Source Control: Oracle Software Configuration Manager (SCM) is integrated directly in Forms Developer to provide source control options, such as checkin and checkout capability, versioning, diff and merge utilities, and impact analysis.
Extended Scalability: The multi-tiered architecture enables you to scale applications from a single user to tens of thousands of users, with no changes to the application. You can use server functionality, such as array DML, database cursors, or bind variables, to improve scalability.
Object Reuse: Oracle Forms Developer offers an inheritance model that facilitates the inheritance of attributes and code from one object to another and from one application to another, through subclassing and object libraries.
Introducing the Course Application
The Summit Office Supply Schema
The simplified table diagram shows the tables that are used throughout the course to build the Forms application. These same tables are used in other Oracle courses as well.
Summit Office Supply is a company that sells office products to customers. Summit has a number of employees in several departments. Some employees are sales representatives who have a relationship with specific customers.
Customers place orders. Each order consists of one or more line items. Each line item represents a product.
Many products have an associated image, in the form of an image file.
The company products are stored in a number of warehouses. The contents of the warehouses are managed in the inventory.
The Summit Office Supply Application
The following example of a Forms Builder application will familiarize you with the main run-time facilities of the product. You will also build your own version of this application during the practices in this course.
The Summit company produces a range of office supplies that they sell to businesses and individuals (their customers). The Summit application is an order-entry system that maintains customer details, their orders, and the available stock (inventory).
The application consists of two main forms:
Customers form: The Customers facilitates queries on existing customers and the insertion, update, or deletion of customer records. When a customer is selected, the user can open the Orders form to enter or view orders for that customer. The form consists of a single block, the Customers block, a single record block, whose base table is Customers.
The Summit Office Supply Application (continued)
Orders form: Opened from the Customers form, the Orders form displays orders for a customer and the line items that belong to each order. Orders may also be created, modified, or deleted in this form. You can also display the stock available on the ordered products. The form consists of three blocks:
Orders block: The Orders block is a single record master block for the form The base table is Orders, but the block also displays associated information from other tables, such as the name of the customer.
Order_Items block: The Order_Items block is the related detail block for an order, showing its line items and the products ordered. This is a multirecord block whose items are on the same canvas as those in the Orders block. The base table of the Order_Items block is Order_Items, but the block displays information from other tables, such as the product description.
Inventories block: The Inventories block is a multirecord block showing warehouse stock for a product. Its items are on a separate canvas, which is assigned to its own window. This block is linked to the current product in the Order_Items block, but the two blocks can operate independently.
Summary
Grid computing seeks to make computing power available on demand, without regard to where the data or application resides or which computer processes the request. Oracle 10g products (Database, Application Server, and Enterprise Manager Grid Control) provide the software infrastructure to power enterprise grid computing.
Oracle Application Server provides a variety of services for building and deploying Web applications, including the Oracle HTTP Server (OHS), Oracle Containers for J2EE (OC4J), Reports Services, and Forms Services.
Oracle Developer Suite includes components for application development (JDeveloper, Designer, Software Configuration Manager, and Forms Developer) and for business intelligence (Warehouse Builder, Discoverer, and Reports).
Summary (continued)
Oracle Forms Services, a component of Oracle Application Server 10g, provides for the Web deployment of Forms applications with a rich Java user interface. It uses the same generic applet for any form.
The components of Oracle Forms Services all play a role in running an application. These components are the Forms client (Java applet), the Forms Servlet, the Forms Listener Servlet, and the Forms Runtime Engine.
Oracle Forms Developer is the component of Oracle Developer Suite 10g that enables you to develop Forms applications. Benefits of Oracle Forms Developer include:
Rapid application development: Create and modify applications with little or no code
Application partitioning: Drag objects between modules and the database server
Flexible source control: Integration with Software Configuration Manager (SCM)
Extended scalability: Use of server functionality such as array DML, database cursors, or bind variables
Object reuse: Subclassing, object libraries