11 Facts About Oracle Forms

Oracle Forms is a software product for creating screens that interact with an Oracle database.

Oracle Forms is sold and released separately from the Oracle Database.

Oracle Forms started as Interactive Application Facility, which had two main components: the compiler and the runtime interpreter.

Oracle Forms 3 was a character mode application and was primarily used in terminals such as Digital VT220 and PCs running Microsoft DOS.

Oracle Forms 9i included many bug fixes to 6i and was known as a good stable version.

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Each version of Oracle Forms can connect to numerous versions of the ORACLE database and is sold and released separately from the ORACLE Database.

Oracle Forms is generally forward and backward compatible with the Oracle database - for example: Oracle Forms 9 can connect to at least Oracle 8,9,10 and 11.

Oracle Forms products have historically followed their own release-numbering and naming conventions.

Oracle Forms Designer is a Computer aided software engineering tool that was sold by Oracle Forms.

The last release of Oracle Forms Designer was in 2010 and it has since been discontinued.

Whilst Oracle's preferred approach for new development is its Java based Oracle Application Development Framework or Oracle Application Express, Oracle's development tools statement of direction is quite clear in its commitment to continuing to support Oracle Forms and continue to develop and enhance it in the following areas:.