Oracle IAS

Oracle Internet Application Server

Oracle Internet Application Server provides a single integrated packaged solution of for middleware infrastructure including Oracle Containers for J2EE, Oracle Web Cache, Oracle HTTP Server, Oracle Forms, Oracle Reports, Oracle Portal and Oracle Discoverer. Also included in this infrastructure are integrated security, management and integration technologies.   Oracle Internet Application Server is a member of the Oracle Fusion Middleware family of products, which bring greater agility, better decision-making, and reduced cost and risk to diverse IT environments today.

For upgrade information, visit the Fusion Middleware Upgrade Center
For supported system configurations, see supported system configuration info for all Oracle Fusion Middleware products

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Oracle Forms Services 11g Oracle Forms, a component of Oracle Fusion Middleware, is Oracle’s long-established technology to design and build enterprise applications quickly and efficiently. Oracle remains committed to the development of this technology, and to the ongoing release as a component of the Oracle platform. This continuing commitment to Forms technology enables you to leverage your existing investment by easily upgrading and integrating existing Oracle Forms applications to take advantage of web technologies and service oriented architectures (SOA). Statement of Direction Forms Strategy and Modernization Webinar (2009) Forms Strategy and Modernizaiton Webinar (2011)

New Features in Oracle Forms Server 11g

• External Events. This new feature is, in essence, support for the feature calledAdvanced Queuing (or AQ) available in all editions of the Oracle Database since 8i. AQis a very powerful and robust asynchronous event solution. This feature brings the possibility to communicate with a Forms module from outside of Forms.
• JavaScript. With the help of this new feature Forms can invoke JavaScript code available in the page from which the Forms applet resides The reverse is also possible,that is you can call into Forms from JavaScript.
• Proxy User Support. This new feature makes it possible to use Proxy Users in OracleForms. Proxy Users are users with very few and limited privileges used in deployments with high security requirements and/or very many users.
• New Enterprise Manager User interface and functionality. Oracle Forms’ support for EM has been improved with a new user interface and new features. It’s nowpossible to correlate a specific Forms session’s activities with activities seen in the database. A function that associates a Forms instance with a SSO instance has also been added.
• Events in Pluggable Java Components. Oracle Forms support for Pluggable JavaComponents (or PJC) has been augmented by adding support for dispatching events to the Forms server in PJC code.
• Tracing improvements. The tracing present in Oracle Forms can now log the namesof called PL/SQL functions and procedures and the names, types and values ofparameters used in those calls.
• Oracle Diagnostic Logging. Support for Oracle’s standardized logging architecture isat the heart of this new feature.
• Using the JVM Controller when integrating with Oracle Reports. The JVMcontroller functionality used only for Java integration in earlier versions has now beenextended to Forms’ integration with Oracle Reports.

These new features will help in development, management and modernization of OracleForms applications and allow them to integrate with different technologies through a serviced based achitecture (SOA).