Convert your Oracle Forms applications to Oracle APEX successfully
- Convert your Oracle Forms Applications to Oracle APEX
- Master the different stages of a successful Oracle Forms to APEX conversion project
- Packed with screenshots and clear explanations to facilitate learning
- A step-by-step tutorial providing a proper understanding of Oracle conversion concepts
Although Oracle Forms remains popular, many developers now see Oracle APEX as a preferred technology. Oracle Forms to Oracle APEX conversion projects follow a well-defined procedure, but sub-procedures and complexities can arise that make such conversion projects a challenging job.
This book will take you through a real Oracle Forms to APEX conversion project. It explains all the elements of the conversion, from generating XML files to the deployment of a working APEX application. By the end of this book, you will have mastered the process of Forms conversion.
The book starts with the details of the Forms project, and prepares you for the conversion process. You will use the rwconverter and Reports Builder in Oracle Developer Suite to generate XML and other useful files. You will plan and define the business logic for your conversion project. You will use the Forms Converter in Oracle APEX to convert and customize your Oracle Forms applications. Finally, you will deploy your application.
With this book you will understand what a Forms Conversion project in Oracle APEX means, what needs to be done, and what steps are necessary in order to create a fully functional and meaningful conversion project. This book shows the best way to convert applications from Forms to APEX.
What you will learn from this book?
- Create a fully functional and meaningful APEX conversion project using the Forms Converter in Oracle Application Express
- Generate XML files using conversion tool, the rwconverter, and Reports Builder in the Oracle Developer Suite
- Create a Forms Conversion Project and upload the generated XML files into the conversion project
- Implement the business logic in your APEX application
- Customize your converted APEX application using the Foms Converter in APEX
- Deploy the APEX application
- Master the working of Forms Converter in Oracle APEX
- Understand the difficulties in a Forms Conversion project and address them
- Master the different stages of a successful Oracle Forms to APEX conversion project
Approach
Packed with plentiful screenshots and clear explanations, this book is a step-by-step tutorial that demonstrates a successful Oracle Forms to Oracle APEX Conversion project.
Who this book is written for?
This book is for Oracle Forms developers who want to migrate to Oracle APEX. The book will also be useful for Oracle APEX developers who want to convert their older Forms applications to Oracle APEX applications.
About the Author
Douwe Pieter van den Bos
Douwe Pieter van den Bos started working as an Oracle Developer using Oracle Designer and Oracle Forms. Soon he discovered the wondrous world of Oracle Application Express and was one of the fi rst people in the Netherlands to be using this tool in real live applications. His fi rst encounters with the development of APEX applications and, later on, his thoughts on web development and project management were written down on his own personal website, ome-b.nl. This web site became the only Dutch APEX related website and a knowledge base on everything APEX.
Book Details
- Paperback: 172 pages
- Publisher: Packt Publishing (July 29, 2009)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1847197760
- ISBN-13: 978-1847197764
- File Size: 6.8 MiB
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