File Selection Dialog with Oracle Forms 10g (10.1.2): replacing some of webutil functionalities

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Posted by Hafed | Posted in Forms, oracle, PJCs/Javabeans | Posted on 24-12-2008

When you have a directory with a complicated hierarchical structure (nested sub-floders), using webutil to browse the folder is inadequate. This is mainly due to the use of JFileChooser which is notoriously slow in this case.

Since most implementations use JInitiator, one way to circumvent this problem is to implement a bean that will make use of AWT FileDialog.

Based on the fileuploader bean found in the oracle forms 10g demos, I have implemented a bean that provides file selection.

This has been tested on Forms 10g 10.1.2 on IBM AIX. Please note that the bean was put together in about 10 hours in order to resolve this specific directory browsing and file selection.

Download jar, pll and installation doc

Update: Here is the FMB with the demo: fileupload.fmb

Comments (25)

fabrice said on 20-05-2009
	Hi, where can we download the module fileselection.FMB to test the bean ? Thanks

Hafed said on 20-05-2009
	@fabrice: I have to check my archive. I will send you the FMB this week. Thanks.

Mohamed said on 03-06-2009

Hello,

First, thank you for your blog. It is realy helpfull.

We are migrating our application from forms 6i to 10g was in manual way. I need a free tool to migrate in an automatic way these programs. Please could you help on that or at least give me advices and document. I heard about JDAPI but I am not java specialist. Could you explain me how it works.

Also we noticed that there is a slow down in terme of performance when we move a couple of forms to 10g. Do you have any idea why that happens?
Thank you,
PS: Environnement: Forms and Reports 10g (10.1.2), LINUX

Another pbme I had the last

dayang said on 13-07-2009
	Hi Fabed, Could u please upload the fileselection.FMB in this post. Thanks

Moged said on 14-07-2009
	Hi, really interesting but incomplete example. It would be possible to get your fileselection.fmb? Thanks

Arkesh said on 26-07-2009
	Can I get the fileselection.fmb so that I can have deatil view on how it works.

M.ATHAR said on 11-08-2009
	thanks it help me now i,m facing problem when i use thin client system how to over come

Marcos said on 01-10-2009
	Hi, where can we download the module fileselection.FMB to test the bean ? Thanks

Jan said on 11-11-2009
	Hi Hafed, where can we get fileselection.FMB and java source for file selection

Suresh said on 27-01-2010
	Great work. Webutil is very slow. Could I make this to run in Forms 6i? If you have the source code including fmb for 6i please it pass it on, otherwise the code for 10g would be fine. thanks

satyam said on 18-02-2010
	could you please send me the fileselection.fmb to my email thans, satyam

Ankur said on 11-10-2010
	ciuld u send the fmb on ankursharma1111@gmail.com

Vinit said on 08-06-2011
	Please can you send the fileselection.fmb

Andrzej Heine said on 16-08-2011
	Hi, where can I download the module fileselection.FMB and utilweb.jar source ? Thanks

Dimitris Alexakos said on 06-02-2012
	Could you please send form fileselection.fmb to my email in order to test the bean? thanks

Tony said on 29-02-2012
	Could you please send form fileselection.fmb to my email in order to test the bean? My email is mn2so4mn@gmail.com thanks

Faisal Khan said on 29-03-2012
	Hi Hafed, Could you please send me the fileselection.fmb to my email address. Thanks, Faisal Khan

Taher said on 12-04-2012
	Greate job Hafed. Please send FMB to me, its very urgent.

Bidhan said on 15-05-2012
	I have been looking for this kind of bean to be implemented with the form. Could you please send form fileselection.fmb to my email in order to test the bean? thanks

Cal Thorne said on 03-06-2012
	Pls send me the fileselection.fmb file, as well. This looks really promising. Thanks,

Chaitanya said on 02-08-2012
	Please send me the fileselection.fmb file, as well.Need it asap.

eperez said on 19-12-2012
	Can you help me sending me the FMB to edwinperez2006@gmail.com, thanks for your valuable help.

Jose said on 22-04-2013
	Please send me the fileselection.fmb file, as well.Thanks in advance

Marco Angeletti said on 09-08-2013
	could anyone send me the fileselection.fmb example file, I couldn’t test the bean since now. Thx

Md. zahirul Islam said on 27-01-2016

fileupload.fmb does not work. following errors found when open with dev10g:
FRM-18108: Failed to load the following objects.

Source Module:f90standards.olb
Source Object: DUMMY
Source Module:f90standards.olb
Source Object: STANDARD_CHECKBOX
Source Module:f90standards.olb
Source Object: STANDARD_CHECKBOX
Source Module:f90standards.olb
Source Object: STANDARD_CHECKBOX
Source Module:f90standards.olb
Source Object: STANDARD_TEXT_ITEM
Source Module:f90standards.olb
Source Object: STANDARD_CHECKBOX
Source Module:f90standards.olb
Source Object: STANDARD_TEXT_ITEM
Source Module:f90standards.olb
Source Object: STANDARD_TEXT_ITEM
Source Module:f90standards.olb
Source Object: STANDARD_TEXT_ITEM
Source Module:f90standards.olb
Source Object: TEXT_ROUNDED_BUTTON
Source Module:f90standards.olb
Source Object: TEXT_ROUNDED_BUTTON
Source Module:f90standards.olb
Source Object: STANDARD_TEXT_ITEM
Source Module:f90standards.olb
Source Object: STANDARD_TEXT_ITEM
Source Module:f90standards.olb
Source Object: STANDARD_TEXT_ITEM
Source Module:f90standards.olb
Source Object: FRAME
Source Module:f90standards.olb
Source Object: FRAME
Source Module:f90standards.olb
Source Object: DEMO_COMMON_OBJECTS
Source Module:f90standards.olb
Source Object: MSGBOX_GROUP
Source Module:f90standards.olb
Source Object: DEMO_MODULE_PROPERTIES

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