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Oracle Forms 12c: Run Oracle Forms WITHOUT a Browser!

For over a decade, people have been saying that Oracle Forms is dead.

 

Little do they know that Oracle Forms is alive and kicking, playing a big part in the cloud ecosystem.

Organizations with major investments in Oracle Forms can continue to gain ROI from Forms by upgrading their system and operations using next-generation technologies like RPA, mobility and integrations (APIs).

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The following was contributed by a loyal member of the Oracle Forms Community, Holger Lehmann.  

Three runtime options to start your Forms application: 

1 – The default case (as a browser plugin)

2 – With Java Web Start

3 – As a standalone client (Oracle Forms Standalone Application Launcher – FSAL)

Oracle definitely looked ahead to the future with new operating system issues (e.g., new browsers and their new behavior in Windows 10).

 

OPTION 1: The default case (as a browser plugin)

The usual way Oracle provides is to start the Forms application out of the browser. 

Note: the client browser must support the Java Plugin.

 

Oracle Forms 12c

 

OPTION 2: With Java Web Start

In the new version of Oracle Forms 12c Java Web is officially certified as a method for running your application. 

Note: the client must install Java as well. 

 

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Here, certain restrictions are valid:

– No support JavaScript since it is not running in the browser
– No SSO, no SSO Logout

 

OPTION 3: As a standalone client (Oracle Forms Standalone Application Launcher – FSAL)

This section has an update here. 

 

Overview:
“The Oracle Forms Stand-alone Application Launcher (FSAL) offers an alternative way for end-users to run Oracle Forms applications. FSAL offers a browser-less, more client/server-like interface.

 

As a result of not using a browser, FSAL does not use the Java Plugin component of a Java Runtime Environment (JRE) or Java Developer Kit (JDK). All that is required to run FSAL on the end-user machine is a Java installation. This can be either the JDK or the JRE. To determine which Java versions are supported, please contact your administrator.” taken from http://w7x6412c-rdbms:9001/forms/html/fsal.htm 

Starting from the fsal.htm you can load the associated frmsal.jar to the client. So quite simply, this method even works without a browser! But again with JDK or JRE on the client machine.

 

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Conclusion and Resources:

The traditional mode of starting a Forms module still works. However, due to the discontinuation of Java plug-in support in some browsers, Oracle was forced to react and break new ground. 

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