At the Oracle Forms Strategy event at the local Oracle office in Ballerup, Denmark, quite a few people admitted they were still running Oracle Forms 6i (client/server, of course). They are officially on their own from tomorrow, when extended support for Forms 6i runs out. If you are still on Oracle Forms 6i, it is definitely about time to think hard about your future direction.
You have several options:
- Migrate to the latest version of Forms (Oracle promises Forms support to 2013 and beyound). You can do this manually (it’ll take you 1-2 hours per form on average) or use a tool. At Scott/Tiger, we recommend (and sell) the PITSS.CON tool, but there are other (less expensive) options as well
- Migrate your code to something else (Java or .NET). There are tool vendors offering to do this more or less automatically.
- Develop new code (ADF strongly recommended). To reuse the business logic in your Forms, move it into the database – that allows you both to call it directly from Java, or to generate PL/SQL Web Services to call from any application