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Protect, Extend, and Evolve – Start Preparing Your Oracle Forms & Reports Application For The Future!

May 10, 2012PITSS America LLCThe Oracle Forms and Reports Modernization Experts


Oracle’s Executive Strategy For Forms Customers:

“Oracle Forms and Reports, components of Oracle Fusion

Middleware, are Oracle's long established technologies used

to design and build enterprise applications quickly and

efficiently. Oracle remains committed to the development of

these technologies and to their future release as components

of the Oracle platform.”

- Oracle, March 2012

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/issue-archive/2010/toolssod-3-129969.pdf

Oracle’s Commitment To Forms [1/2]



Share your Feature Requests with Oracle Product Management

Oracle’s Commitment To Forms [2/2]


Protect, Extend, Evolve

Modernizing Oracle Forms

Oracle Forms/ Reports2.3, 3.0, 4.5, 5.0, 6.0, 6i, 9i, 10g

Oracle Forms/ ReportsWeb Deployment 11g

Unsupported Supported Future Architecture

Upgrade

Maintain

Evolve

Oracle Forms 11g/ ADF/ APEX/ …SOA

Extend

Evolve


PITSS Company Profile

Founded in 1999

Software and Service provider specializing in Oracle Development Tools & WebLogic

Forms Reports ADF APEX

PITSS GmbH Stuttgart, Germany (World Headquarters)PITSS America LLC Troy, MI (United States Headquarters)

Oracle Alliances/Practices

Solid Background, Solid Solutions.

Oracle Modernization


Protect Upgrade Unsupported Forms Versions to 11g

Extend Leverage Fusion Middleware

Develop New Reports With BI Publisher

PITSS.CON Modernization Process

Redundant and Dead Code Removal

Move Business Logic to Database

Convert Business Logic into Web Services

Evolve Forms to ADF, APEX, … Any GUI

Overview


Unsupported Risks

How much longer will your application continue to run?

Application Software

Operating Software

Hardware

“IT organizations assume considerable risk with unsupported deployments of Oracle Forms solutions, and risks grows as technology ages.” Mark Driver – Gartner - 2007

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Upgrade to 11g Forms with PITSS.CON Reduces project duration

Free up project budget

Increases quality compared to traditional (manual) approaches

Protect Your Investment

Definition Planning ImplementationProductionPreparation

Modernizationwith OracleFusion Technology

t

Forms 11g(PITSS)

Savings by using PITSS.CON compared to manual approach

Traditional / Manual Re-Development


Make Your Upgrade A Successful One

11g Experience No 11g Experience

Increased Project Duration

Deployment Issues

Source Code Issues

Increased Risk

Avoid common upgrade issues: 11g WebLogic Server Improperly Configured

11g Forms-Reports Integration Issues

11g Forms and Reports Deployment Issues on UNIX

11g Database Upgrade Issues

Risk










Overview


WebLogic Server

Standard 11g Forms Setup

End-User

Reports

Forms

AuthenticationDatabase

Forms RuntimeReports RuntimeDatabase Authentication

WebLogic Server Components

HTTP/HTTPS

Integration


WebLogic Server

Leveraging Fusion Middleware [1/2]

End-User

Reports

Forms

OAM

Authentication

Single authentication source for multiple apps and app serversManaged User SessionsGranular Authorization and Authentication Rules

Single Sign-On Authentication

HTTP/HTTPS

Integration


WebLogic Server


End-User

Reports

Forms

OAM

Authentication

Single authentication source for multiple apps and app serversManaged User SessionsGranular Authorization and Authentication Rules

Single Sign-On Authentication

HTTP/HTTPS

Integration

Enterprise LDAP

Optional: Integration


WebLogic Server


End-User

Reports

Forms

ADF

Integration

Run Forms-ADF Hybrid applicationsRun pure ADF and Forms applications Run a Portal for both ADF and Forms Applications

Run Forms and ADF Together

HTTP/HTTPS

Integration

HTTP/HTTPSIntegration










Overview


Oracle’s Statement of Direction: “Oracle’s Strategic reporting solution is now BI Publisher…Customers

needing to create or make major updates to reports should take

advantage of BI Publisher…”


BI Publisher [1/3]




Key Points: Oracle Reports will continue to be supported in the future

BI Publisher is Oracle’s Direction for Reporting

Oracle will re-adjust BI Publisher’s Licensing Model

No smooth conversion process for Oracle Reports to BI Publisher


BI Publisher [2/3]




WebLogic Server

BI Publisher [3/3]

End-UserReports

Forms

BI Publisher

Integration

Integration with Multiple Types of data sourcesOutputs Reports in Web, MS Office, and Adobe Reader Formats Integration with Forms and ADF applications

Reporting With BI Publisher

HTTP/HTTPS

Integration HTTP/HTTPS

Database

ADFIntegration










Overview


Extend With PITSS.CON

Quality Assurance

Documentation

Iteration

Analysis Dead Code Redundancy BL 2 DB

Documentations

Specifications

Dependencies

Null Objects

Not used Objects

Not Triggered

Redundant Objects

Redundant Source

Comparisons

DA-Layer

BL-Layer

DBLANot Tech. Relevant

WEBService

Co-Existence of Technologies/ Partial Projects

Oracle Forms Upgrade Ready for SOAForms 11g

ADF

APEX

Forms 2, 3, …










Overview


Remove Dead Code

Typical obsolete functionality: Calendar functionality

Alerts for validating fields

Graphics

Visual Attributes,

like current_record

Orphan objects

Eliminating the Unused ObjectsSkills:

Forms & ADF

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es


Remove Redundant Code

Reducing RedundanciesForms Objects/ Business Logic→ Components Reuse → Modularity

30% match

100% match70% match

100% match

70% match

50% match

Skills: Forms

Ch

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Overview


Move Business Logic To Database

Preserving the Investment - The Business LogicThe difference between Orders.fmb and a real-life application:










Overview


Extend With Web Services

Skills: Forms, PL/SQL

Preserving the Investment - The Business Logic










Overview


Forms To ADF

Quality Assurance

Documentation

Iteration

Analysis Dead Code Redundancy BL 2 DB

Documentations

Specifications

Dependencies

Null Objects

Not used Objects

Not Triggered

Redundant Objects

Redundant Source

Comparisons

DA-Layer

BL-Layer

DBLANot Tech. Relevant

WEBService

Co-Existence of Technologies/ Partial Projects

Oracle Forms Upgrade Ready for SOAForms 11g

ADF

APEX

Forms 2, 3, …


ADF, Java

Java, XML, SQL

Oracle app development

DB independent

open standards

Rich User Interface

APEX

SQL, PL/SQL,

HTML, JavaScript, CSS

tightly integrated: Oracle DB

huge community

.NET

C#/ VB.NET,

SQL, XML

OS restrictions: Windows

The Technology Choice Challenge

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Oracle Recommendation:“Oracle JDeveloper 11g with Oracle ADF is the tool of choice for building

applications on Fusion Middleware”


Forms To ADF



App Analysis

Unused Objects Analysis

Business Logic2DB

ADF Redesign

Fine-tuning

Maintain Enhance

Reduce Redundant Objects

Challenge: What to do with Oracle Reports?

Managing Migration Projects Forms - ADF

PITSS Recommended Approach: Migrate reports to 11g

Call 11g reports from ADF Application

Pass reports parameters not in URL

Deploy 11g reports and ADF 11g application on same Weblogic server


Oracle ADF Architecture


Forms To ADF

The Web Look and Feel Challenge

10 pixelbetween

10 pixelleft

10 pixelbelow

10 pixelright

Corporate GUI Standards


Forms To ADF

The Browser Performance Challenge

…do we need on 1 page… … 100 fields? … or 100 records?

Redesigning the UI to meet Browser Standards


Forms To ADF: Oracle Recommended Approach

Summary of Oracle’s Recommendations to Forms Customers(see details in Statement of Direction)

Oracle’s phased approach

reduces Risk of Transition

Failure.

Migrate at your own pace based on the available skills and project priorities.

t

Time

Forms

ADF,JEE

*Source: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/issue-archive/2010/toolssod-3-129969.pdf (March 2012)

http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/forms/pdf/10g/toolssod.pdf


Forms To ADF

Migration Assistant Objects Correspondence Report

Manual Adjustments To-Do-List

PLSQL2Java code translator

Generates a solid starting place

to complete the rest of the

migration

ADF MigrationSkills: ADF, Java

Ch

alle

ng

es


Forms To ADF

PITSS.CON Demo


Protect, Extend, Evolve

Modernizing Oracle Forms

Oracle Forms/ Reports2.3, 3.0, 4.5, 5.0, 6.0, 6i, 9i, 10g

Oracle Forms/ ReportsWeb Deployment 11g

Unsupported Supported Future Architecture

Upgrade

Maintain

Evolve

Oracle Forms 11g/ ADF/ APEX/ …SOA

Extend

Evolve


Q/A & Follow-up

Contact Information:

PITSS Technical contact: Gavin Woods

[email protected]

Sales contact: Jason Marra

[email protected]

Website:www.pitss.com

Email: [email protected]

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