Oracle Forms Developer Training | Certification Exam | Canada Toronto, Calgary Montreal

Developer and Oracle AS Forms Services provide a complete application framework for optimal deployment of Forms applications on the Internet. Together they deliver a Rapid Application Development (RAD) environment and application deployment infrastructure to ensure that your Internet applications automatically scale and perform over any network.This paper describes some of the new features for the new OracleAS Forms 10g (9.0.4) product release.[/vc_column_text]

Why Upgrade to Oracle9i /10g Forms?

Describe the benefits provided by Oracle9i /10g Forms

Explain the reasons why Forms has been optimized for the Web
Describe Oracle9i /10g Forms productivity enhancements
Explain the features for global deployment of Forms applications
Explain how Oracle9i /10g Forms provides integration features
Describe the openness of Oracle9i /10g Forms

Explain how Oracle9i /10g Forms has been streamlined

Explain the types of features removed from the product
Explain components that have been removed from the product

Deploying Forms Applications on the Internet

Describe the architecture of Oracle9i /10g Application Server
Explain the role of Oracle Containers for J2EE (OC4J) in deploying applications
Describe the components of Oracle9i /10g Forms Services
Describe the process of starting a run-time session
Run a form from the Forms Builder using OC4J
- Start and stop an OC4J session
- Set Forms Builder perferences to use OC4J
Customize the Forms Services configuration
- Define environment variables
- Define Forms Servlet parameters

Deploying Forms Applications Globally

Specify item length for single-byte, multi-byte, and variable-byte character sets
Adjust functionality for different time zones
- Explain how time zone conversion works
- Modify environment variables to enable time zone conversion
- Use built-ins to manipulate time zones
Publish one URL for applications that will be displayed in different languages based on the browser setting
- Explain how browser language settings are communicated to the application server
- Describe how the language setting determines the application that runs
- Deploy language-specific applications
Describe the TranslationHub tool to translate Forms modules into different languages
- Explain how to start TranslationHub
- Describe the TranslationHub user interface
- Explain the steps to translate an application

Migrating Existing Applications to Oracle9i /10g Forms

Describe the migration path for applications written in previous versions of Forms
Explain the methods you can use to upgrade applications
Use the Oracle9i /10g Forms Migration Assistant to upgrade a Forms6i application
Explain issues that can be encountered when upgrading from Forms versions prior to 6i
Describe design and upgrade issues with applications previously deployed by other means
Explain how to integrate graphs from Forms6i applications
Run Reports from Oracle9i /10g Forms

Designing Forms Modules Outside the Builder

Explain the batch methods of modifying Forms modules
Describe the benefits of modifying Forms with a batch method
Use the Java API (JDAPI) to modify Forms modules
- Explain the advantages of using JDAPI
- Describe the architecture of JDAPI
- Use JDAPI to:
  - Manage the JDAPI session
  - Create a new Form module
  - Add objects to modules
  - Save and compile modules
  - Load existing modules
  - Access child objects of a Forms module
  - Modify Forms objects
  - Delete Forms objects
  - Copy and subclass Forms objects
  - Handle exceptions
  - Explain how to write generic code
  - Use javadoc for JDAPI
- Use the Forms to XML conversion utility to modify Forms modules

Enhancing the User Experience

Design an LOV that can be canceled for long-running queries
Write code that retrieves the Forms version
Write code to restrict a query only the first time it is executed

Troubleshooting Forms Applications

Describe the components of the Forms Debugger
Use the Debugger to diagnose problems with a Forms module:
- Set breakpoints
- Run a form in debug mode
- Step through code
Debug an application remotely
Enable tracing and logging to help troubleshoot problems:
- Configure Forms Track
- Start a trace
- View Forms Trace output
- Describe servlet logging levels
- Turn on Forms Listener Servlet logging
- Turn on Forms Servlet logging
- View the servlet log file

Integrating Java into Forms Applications

Explain the methods for using Java in Forms applications
Explain the significance of using JDK 1.3
Use the improved support for JavaBeans
- Describe JavaBeans
- Explain how Forms and JavaBeans interact
- Describe the functionality provided by the FBean package
- Set bean area item properties
- Set JavaBean properties
- Respond to JavaBean events
- Interact with non-event JavaBeans
- Deploy JavaBeans for use with Forms applications
Use Pluggable Java Components
- Describe Pluggable Java Components (PJCs)
- Implement PJCs