Re: Oracle and Forms - A history lesson please

On Fri, 23 Apr 2004 17:55:25 +0100, "Alfie" <not_at_home.com> wrote:

>I am just taking a look at Oracle Developer/forms after being away for a
>long time - I can't remember the last Forms version I've used in anger- 2 or
>3 I think. I am very rusty!

There has been 2.0,2.3 and 3.0. 3.0 dropped the exemacro case and was introducing PL/SQL
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>Anyway, I've just installed 10g and got developer working and I see
>everything seems to be "client/server" based.
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Incorrect. Oracle dropped client/server with Developer 6.0

>I've built and run a simple form which runs itself in an IE browser.
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>My question is, is this the only way Forms works now?
It is.

 For instance, can you
>compile a form into an executable and run it directly against the database
>in a similar way as you might build say, a C++ graphical application with
>ODBC calls?

You can't
According to Oracle client/server is dead. However you still can run without Oracle 9iAS when you have Apache.

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>If so, how?
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>It seems to me this might provide quicker access - or at least startup.
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>Thanks.
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Sybrand Bakker, Senior Oracle DBA