Posted by Hafed | Posted in Forms, Lotus Notes, oracle, Wiki | Posted on 28-12-2005
I am working on the features to be included on the IDE. Checking sourceforge.net, I found several interesting open source packages. The closest to what I envision for the code generator is middlegen(http://boss.bekk.no/boss/middlegen/).
Now, for the notes feature itself, I came across http://www.to-java.com/ which I found on the oracle otn section (migrating Lotus notes apps to J2EE, http://www.oracle.com/technology/oramag/webcolumns/2003/techarticles/lin_tojava.html). That’s exactly what I think is the closest to a Forms, views paradigm for an Oracle-notes application.
As far as the IDE is concerned, it is going to be a Java Swing based interface. For the time-being, I am checking Sun Netbeans (http://www.netbeans.org/) and Oracle Jdeveloper.
At any rate, I don’t want to get too deep in extra features at this point. The basic point is to get an MVC application with the capability to display Views and Forms.
Posted by Hafed | Posted in Forms, Lotus Notes, oracle | Posted on 09-12-2005
Is there any Oracle extension or a development tool for Oracle that works the same way as Lotus Designer.
Basically, a tool that allows the quick setup of an interface with views on the left pane and a list of documents (records) on the right side. Actions in this case will be related to triggers.
This can be done with Oracle Forms but it is quite tedious. Did anyone come across such a tool ?
I am aware of most of the Oracle development tools (Oracle Designer-Forms- HTML DB etc …) but I still did not come across such a tool.
Most likely, JDeveloper will allow such a setup but this will require a significant programming load.
Lotus notes is amazing as far as the presentation of data is concerned. Anyone with a basic understanding of document management can quicly setup a visual interface that can present the data within the documents in a very easy to understand format. What is most important is that the end user can quickly start working on the documents within the Notes database.
Oracle still does not have this capability as far as I know and if anyone can point to a similar tool, it would help a lot.
