Oracle Forms Modernization on Oracle Mix

I have created Oracle Forms Modernization group on Oracle Mix. Everyone for whom this topic is interesting are welcome to join.

I want to see this group as place where Oracle Forms to SOA modernization methodology and strategies will be discussed, as well as technical issues. It should be a good place to share experience and best practices from related projects.

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JDeveloper 11g Masterclass in Vilnius - After Event

Today I was participating in workshop - Oracle Forms: The Road To SOA, this event is described in my previous blog post. I have done JDeveloper 11g Masterclass session during this event, it was 2 hours session and was based on functionality described here. Event was successful with about 50 people auditory.

During my session I have developed 2 applications. You can download those applications I have developed on the fly and run with JDeveloper 11g Technology Preview 3 - Forms2SOA.zip and FormsToSOAComposite.zip. First application is main application based on standard HR schema from Oracle XE database. Second application implements ESB flow to write into file and is exposed through Web Service.

Here is Model part structure I have developed:


ViewController part structure is a little bit more complex:


I have designed Page Template with Panel Splitter component. You can see in Job Tab LOV component, in the second part of Panel Splitter is created Region with Employees table implemented as Fragment:


When value from LOV component is selected, table is automatically updated with Employees with selected job.

In the second tab - Job Edit, we can edit job selected from LOV component. This functionality is implemented in Fragment as well and comes to main page as Region:


However, this second Region is more complex, it provides a choice to display Graph component as well:


Fragment with Graph is displayed based on conditional logic, if Show Graph check-box is selected - Graph is shown:


Developed SOA composite is based on 3 parts - Exposed Web Service, Mediator and File Adaptor:


Exposed Web Service is invoked from application developed with Oracle ADF. File Adapter writes data received through Web Service to a file in File System.

Before you will invoke developed SOA Composite in your environment, you need to change WSDL location in DataControls.dcx file, available in Forms2SOA application:

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JDeveloper 11g Masterclass in Vilnius

I'm posting update to my previous post - Oracle Forms to SOA workshop in Vilnius, where I was describing masterclass session I will do on April 14.

Grant Ronald (Group Product Manager in Oracle) have provided more information about event - Oracle Forms Modernization Event in Lithuania (with JDeveloper 11g Masterclass).

Everyone can register on OTN - Oracle Forms: The Road to SOA.

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Oracle Forms to SOA workshop in Vilnius

I'm happy to announce that I will participate together with Grant Ronald (Oracle Group Product Manager) in Oracle Forms to SOA workshop in Vilnius, on April 14th. This workshop is a part of events Oracle doing across EMEA - Oracle Forms Modernization Events and will be done for local Oracle Forms community.

Grant will deliver two presentations:

1. Oracle Forms: From Client/ Server to SOA. Integrating Oracle Forms and Services

2. Building Services with JDeveloper and Oracle ADF

My presentation is scheduled for 2 hours and will have only some 3 slides :-) Yes, main focus will be to show how it works. I will develop sample application and will describe those steps:

Model:

1. ADF BC generation with wizards
2. LOVs
3. Calculated attributes
4. Validation (4 Compare rules, 1 complex Expression rule and 2 Collection rules)

View Controller:

1. Templates in JDeveloper 11g
2. Page fragments and Regions
3. ADF Task flows
4. ADF Faces Rich Client

SOA:

1. ESB flow to write into File
2. Developed service invocation from ADF application

See you there ;-)

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