Oracle Forms - Summary

Summary

In this chapter, we learned everything we need to do to get ready for our Forms to APEX conversion project. Here are the necessary steps we went through before we started:

We have seen what files we need. These are the.FMB (Forms Modules), .OLB (Object Libraries), .MMB (Menu Modules), .PLL (PL/SQL Libraries), and RDF, REX, or JSP (Reports) files.
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We have used the Forms2XML conversion tool--the rwconverter--and the Reports Builder in Oracle Developer Suite to create the right files that we need for the APEX conversion project. We have used Forms2XML in the command line to convert Forms Modules, Object Libraries, and Menu Modules to XML files.

We have seen how to use the Reports Builder to save a Reports File as an XML File. We have also seen how the rwconverter command is used to create a flat file in the PL/SQL Library. 
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Using SQL Developer, we have seen what data is contained in the XML files that we created. The XML files contained the same information that we have seen in the Forms and Reports Builder, but is now structured within XML tags. 
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We have done an export of our database objects from the SQL Developer, and have implemented these database objects in our target database using the SQL Developer and the Application Express.

In the next chapter, we will use the XML files we created in this chapter to create a Forms Conversion project in APEX. We will upload these files in the APEX conversion tool and get acquainted with the Forms Conversion project in APEX.

The project page will be our home page and we will see how we use the information in this project page to edit any project in the future.