Got my first Oracle Forms to execute
April 7, 2006Strictly speaking, my new job does not require that I build Oracle Forms. However, the portal we’re building will eventually need to encapsulate Oracle Form objects on a page. So I figured I should try and understand more about Forms. It only took me about half the day but I finally got my first Form to execute just now.
Building the actual form was trivial, like fifteen minutes. The big struggle has been getting the runtime to work. The Form servlet runs in OC4J, which is Oracle’s J2EE environment.
I actually have three copies of OC4J installed–a standalone that I downloaded, and two versions that came with different installs of the Oracle Developer suite. But I could not get the Oracle Forms runtime to execute on two of those installs. Eventually, after quite a bit of Googling and crying for divine intervention, I got the Forms runtime working on the third of my OC4J instances.
It was amazingly satisfying to see my form actually execute. Of course there’s no actual data in the db to display in the form, but that’s a different exercise. For now I’m just terribly pleased that I got this much working. It’s a nice way to head into the weekend, with that feeling of accomplishment.
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