Archive for November, 2008

Strategies for keeping up to date with Oracle forms…

Posted on November 28th, 2008.

 
One of my students recently asked me a question relating to how he can make himself valuable compared to other job applicants.
While I could have answered him with one of those pre-packaged all-purpose answer, I really thought about how I myself manage to keep my knowledge up to date.
I do not pretend to be [...]

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Timers and their usefulness, what has changed in Oracle forms 10g ?

Posted on November 28th, 2008.

Timers were used quite heavily in C/S environments (Oracle forms 6i). Of the many uses, the one that is the most typical is to create a timer when validating an item and then perform an action when the timer expires.
For example, suppose that we need to sort records in a block according to a given [...]

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J-2 before the new Oracle forms 10g application move to Production

Posted on November 27th, 2008.

Everything is now in place for the move to production. This is scheduled for this coming Saturday Nov 29, 2008.  There were several hurdles along the way and adjusting the printing functionality we had in the C/S version to the new 10g web version were not that easy.
In fact, I had some sleepless nights the [...]

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Forms migration on UNIX- almost the end!

Posted on November 11th, 2008.

We are almost at the end of our Forms migration to  10g on IBM AIX. I received some emails regarding the points to watch out for. As you can imagine by reading the previous posts, the migration as the forms module are concerned should not take that long especially if you use JDAPI. Somme annoyances [...]

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