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Contents
Title and Copyright Information
Preface
Intended Audience
Documentation Accessibility
Related Documents
Conventions
1
What's New in Oracle Forms Services
1.1
JavaScript Integration
1.2
Enhanced Java Support
1.3
Support for Server-Side Events
1.4
Proxy User Support
1.5
PL/SQL Tracing
1.6
Integration with Oracle Diagnostics and Logging (ODL)
2
Introduction to Oracle Forms Services
2.1
Oracle Forms
2.1.1
Oracle Forms Developer
2.1.2
Oracle Forms Services
2.1.3
How Oracle Forms Services Launches a Forms Application
2.2
Oracle Database
2.3
Oracle WebLogic Server
2.4
Oracle Fusion Middleware
2.5
About Installing or Upgrading Oracle Forms
2.6
Oracle Forms Services Architecture
2.6.1
Oracle Forms Services Components
3
Basics of Deploying Oracle Forms Applications
3.1
Oracle Forms Services in Action
3.2
Configuration Files
3.2.1
Oracle Forms Configuration Files
3.2.2
Forms Java EE Application Deployment Descriptors
3.2.3
Oracle HTTP Listener Configuration File
3.2.4
Standard Fonts and Icons File
3.2.5
baseHTML Files
3.2.6
WebUtil Configuration Files
3.3
Application Deployment
3.3.1
Deploying Your Application
3.3.2
Specifying Parameters
3.3.3
Creating Configuration Sections in Fusion Middleware Control
3.3.4
Specifying Special Characters in Values of Runform Parameters
3.3.5
Accessing the Listener Servlet Administration Page
3.4
Client Browser Support
3.4.1
How Configuration Parameters and BaseHTML Files are Tied to Client Browsers
3.4.2
Forms Single Sign-On on Mozilla 3.x
4
Configuring and Managing Forms Services
4.1
Fusion Middleware Control and Oracle Forms
4.1.1
Accessing Forms Services with Fusion Middleware Control
4.2
Configuring Forms Services
4.2.1
Common Tasks in the Web Configuration Page
4.2.2
Configuring Parameters with Fusion Middleware Control
4.2.3
Managing Configuration Sections
4.2.4
Managing Parameters
4.2.5
Forms Configuration Parameters
4.3
Managing Environment Variables
4.3.1
Managing Environment Configuration Files
4.3.2
Configuring Environment Variables
4.3.3
Default Environment Variables
4.4
Managing User Sessions
4.5
Managing URL Security for Applications
4.5.1
Securing the Oracle Forms Test Form
4.6
Creating Your Own Template HTML Files
4.6.1
Variable References in Template HTML Files
4.7
Deploying Fonts, Icons, and Images Used by Forms Services
4.7.1
Managing Registry.dat with Fusion Middleware Control
4.7.2
Managing Application Fonts
4.7.3
Deploying Application Icons
4.7.4
SplashScreen and Background Images
4.7.5
Custom Jar Files Containing Icons and Images
4.7.6
Search Path for Icons and Images
4.8
Enabling Language Detection
4.8.1
Specifying Language Detection
4.8.2
Inline IME Support
4.8.3
How Language Detection Works
4.9
Enabling Key Mappings
4.9.1
Customizing fmrweb.res
5
Using Oracle Forms Services with the HTTP Listener and Oracle WebLogic Server
5.1
About the Oracle WebLogic Managed Server
5.2
Performance/Scalability Tuning
5.2.1
Limit the number of HTTPD processes
5.2.2
Set the MaxClients Directive to a High value
5.3
Load Balancing Oracle WebLogic Server
5.4
Using HTTPS with the Forms Listener Servlet
5.5
Using an Authenticating Proxy to Run Oracle Forms Applications
5.6
Oracle Forms Services and SSL
5.7
Enabling SSL with a Load Balancing Router
6
Oracle Forms and JavaScript Integration
6.1
About Oracle Forms Calling External Events
6.1.1
Why Call Events Outside of Oracle Forms?
6.2
About JavaScript Events Calling into Oracle Forms
6.2.1
Why Let Events Call into Oracle Forms?
6.3
Configuration of formsweb.cfg
6.4
Configuration of Environment Variables
7
Enhanced Java Support
7.1
Overview
7.1.1
Dispatching Events from Forms Developer
7.1.2
Dispatching Events to Forms Services
7.2
About Custom Item Event Triggers
7.2.1
Adding the When-Custom-Item-Event Trigger at Design Time
7.2.2
About the Custom Item Event Trigger at Runtime
7.2.3
Example: A Java class for a Push Button
8
Working with Server Events
8.1
About Oracle Forms and Server Events
8.2
Creating Events
8.3
Subscribing to Events
8.4
Event Propagation
8.4.1
About the When-Event-Raised Trigger
8.4.2
About Trigger Definition Level and Scope
8.5
Publishing Database Events
8.6
About Application Integration Between Forms
8.6.1
About Synchronous Communication
8.6.2
About Asynchronous Communication
8.6.3
Configuring Asynchronous Communication
9
Using Forms Services with Oracle Single Sign-On
9.1
Overview
9.1.1
Authentication Flow
9.2
Available Features with OracleAS Single Sign-On, Oracle Internet Directory and Forms
9.2.1
Dynamic Resource Creation When A Resource Is Not Found In Oracle Internet Directory
9.2.2
Support for Dynamic Directives With Forms and OracleAS Single Sign-On
9.2.3
Support for Database Password Expiration for Forms Running with OracleAS Single Sign-On
9.3
OracleAS Single Sign-On Components Used By Oracle Forms
9.4
Enabling OracleAS Single Sign-On for an Application
9.4.1
ssoMode
9.4.2
ssoProxyConnect
9.4.3
ssoDynamicResourceCreate
9.4.4
ssoErrorURL
9.4.5
ssoCancelUrl
9.4.6
Accessing Single Sign-on Information From Forms
9.4.7
Registering Oracle HTTP Server with OracleAS Single Sign-On Server
9.5
Integrating Oracle Forms and Reports
9.5.1
Forms and Reports Integration in non-SSO mode
9.5.2
Using Multiple Reports Server Clusters in Oracle Forms Services
9.5.3
Integrating Forms and Reports Installed in Different Instances
9.6
Enabling and Configuring Proxy Users
9.6.1
Proxy User Overview
9.6.2
Enabling Proxy User Connections
9.6.3
Enabling SSO in formsweb.cfg
9.6.4
Accessing the Forms Application
9.6.5
Changes in Forms Built-ins
9.6.6
Reports Integration with Proxy Users
9.7
Configuring Oracle Internet Directory
10
Configuring and Managing Java Virtual Machines
10.1
Why Use Java Virtual Machine Pooling?
10.1.1
JVM Pooling in Forms and Reports Integration
10.2
About Child Java Virtual Machine Processes
10.2.1
Child JVM Example
10.3
About Multiple JVM Controllers
10.4
JVM Pooling Usage Examples
10.5
Design-time Considerations
10.5.1
Re-importing Your Java Code
10.5.2
About Sharing Static Variables Across Multiple JVMs
10.6
Managing JVM Controllers from the Command Line
10.6.1
JVM Controller Command Examples
10.6.2
Command Restrictions
10.6.3
Start Command Parameters
10.7
Managing JVM Pooling from Fusion Middleware Control
10.7.1
Common Tasks in the JVM Configuration Page
10.7.2
Managing JVM Configuration Sections
10.7.3
Managing Parameters
10.7.4
JVM Configuration Parameters and Default Values
10.7.5
Starting and Stopping JVM Controllers with Fusion Middleware Control
10.7.6
Forms Configuration File Settings
10.7.7
Startup Example
10.8
JVM Controller Logging
10.8.1
Specifying JVM Default Logging Properties
10.8.2
Specifying the JVM Log Directory Location
10.8.3
Accessing Log Files
10.8.4
Deleting a Log File for a JVM Controller
10.9
Integrating Forms and Reports
10.10
JVM Pooling Error Messages
11
Forms Services Security Overview
11.1
Forms Services Single Sign-On
11.1.1
Classes of Users and Their Privileges
11.1.2
Resources That Are Protected
11.1.3
Authentication and Access Enforcement
11.1.4
Leveraging Oracle Identity Management Infrastructure
11.2
Configuring Oracle Forms Services Security
11.2.1
Configuring Oracle Identity Management Options for Oracle Forms
11.2.2
Configuring Oracle Forms Options for Oracle Fusion Middleware Security Framework
12
Tracing and Diagnostics
12.1
About Forms Trace
12.1.1
What Is the Difference between Tracing and Debugging?
12.2
Enabling and Configuring Forms Trace
12.2.1
Configuring Forms Trace
12.2.2
Specifying URL Parameter Options
12.3
Starting and Stopping Forms Trace
12.4
Viewing Forms Trace Output
12.4.1
Running the Translate Utility
12.5
List of Traceable Events
12.5.1
List of Event Details
12.6
Taking Advantage of Oracle Diagnostics and Logging Tools
12.6.1
Enabling Oracle Diagnostics and Logging
12.6.2
Viewing Diagnostics Logs
12.6.3
Using the Servlet Page
12.6.4
Location of Log Files
12.6.5
Example Output for Each Level of Servlet Logging
13
Upgrading to Oracle Forms Services 11
g
13.1
Oracle Forms Services Upgrade Items
13.2
Oracle Forms Services Upgrade Tasks
13.2.1
Upgrade Recommendations and Troubleshooting Tips
13.2.2
Upgrading Oracle Forms Services Application Modules
13.2.3
Upgrading Common Gateway Interface (CGI) to the Oracle Forms Servlet
13.2.4
Upgrading Static HTML Start Files to Generic Application HTML Start Files
13.2.5
Upgrading the Forms 6
i
Listener to the Forms Listener Servlet
13.2.6
Upgrading the Forms Listener Servlet Architecture to Oracle Forms Services
13.2.7
Upgrading Load Balancing
13.2.8
Usage Notes
13.3
Validating the Oracle Forms Services Upgrade
14
Performance Tuning Considerations
14.1
Built-in Optimization Features of Forms Services
14.1.1
Monitoring Forms Services
14.1.2
Forms Services Web Runtime Pooling
14.1.3
Minimizing Client Resource Requirements
14.1.4
Minimizing Forms Services Resource Requirements
14.1.5
Minimizing Network Usage
14.1.6
Maximizing the Efficiency of Packets Sent Over the Network
14.1.7
Rendering Application Displays Efficiently on the Client
14.2
Tuning Oracle Forms Services Applications
14.2.1
Location of the Oracle Forms Services with Respect to the Data Server
14.2.2
Minimizing the Application Startup Time
14.2.3
Reducing the Required Network Bandwidth
14.2.4
Other Techniques to Improve Performance
14.3
Web Cache and Forms Integration
A
Troubleshooting Oracle Forms Services
A.1
Verifying The Installation
A.1.1
Use The Web Form Tester
A.1.2
Find Port Information
A.2
Diagnosing FRM-XXXXX Errors
A.2.1
The Oracle Forms Applet
A.3
Diagnosing Server Crashes with Stack Traces
A.3.1
About Stack Traces
A.3.2
Configuring and Using Stack Traces
A.4
Diagnosing Client Crashes
A.4.1
About Diagnosing Client Crashes
A.4.2
Diagnosing Hanging Applications
A.5
Forms Trace and Servlet Logging Tools
A.6
Resolving Memory Problems
A.6.1
How Java Uses Memory
A.6.2
Setting the Initial Java Heap
A.6.3
About Memory Leaks
A.6.4
Improving Performance with Caching
A.7
Troubleshooting Tips
A.8
Need More Help?
B
Configuring Java Plug-ins
B.1
Supported Configurations
B.2
Legacy Lifecycle Behavior And Configuration Requirements
B.2.1
Configuration Requirements
C
Locations and Samples of Configuration Files
C.1
Locations of Forms Configuration Files
C.2
Default formsweb.cfg
C.3
Platform Specific default.env Files
C.3.1
Default default.env File for Windows
C.3.2
Default default.env File for UNIX and Linux
C.4
base.htm and basejpi.htm Files
C.4.1
Parameters and variables in the baseHTML file
C.4.2
Default base.htm File
C.4.3
Default basejpi.htm File
C.5
web.xml
C.5.1
Default web.xml File
C.6
weblogic.xml
C.7
forms.conf
C.7.1
Default forms.conf
C.8
Registry.dat
C.8.1
Registry.dat
C.9
Default jvmcontroller.cfg
C.10
Default webutil.cfg
C.11
Default webutilbase.htm
C.12
Default webutiljpi.htm
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