This is a guide to using the forms and reports of Oracle Developer. The book's instructional methodology should enable the reader to build simple applications in under an hour and complex applications in a day or two.

Oracle Forms is the single most important tool used to create sophisticated applications for Oracle databases. The latest versions of Oracle Forms have reflected Oracle's Internet-centered strategy, adding powerful capabilities for building Web-centered applications to the product's traditional client/server focus. In Oracle Forms Developer's Handbook, one of the world's leading Oracle developers presents powerful techniques for leveraging Oracle Forms in both web-centered and client/server environments. This is the first Oracle Forms book to reflect the brand-new Version 6i. Oracle Forms Developer's Handbook starts by presenting step-by-step instructions for using every tool in the Forms environment, including the Forms Designer, Object Navigator, and the Layout Editor. Next, learn how to use PL/SQL in Forms applications; master all of the methods and objects available to Forms programmers; and learn how to apply object-oriented programming practices to Forms development, including inheritance, reusability, encapsulation, and polymorphism. Then, walk step-by-step through developing a series of complete, elegant, well-performing Web-based and client/server applications. An accompanying CD-ROM contains all of the book's applications and source code examples, plus all files needed to create and populate sample database objects -- enabling readers to start from any chapter and follow the hands-on activities.

Paired with a CD-ROM including sample applications and animation, a complete guide to Developer/2000 Forms 5.0 helps readers use the tool to build complex database systems rapidly and create client/server and Internet applications for Oracle databases. Original. (All Users).

Oracle Developer Forms Techniques describes the concepts and techniques needed to build Web-enabled applications with Forms. The book covers advanced topics in great detail, including understanding and overcoming error handling limitations in Forms, such as errors which cannot be tracked through normal FORM_SUCCESS or FORM_FAILURE, ordering by items based on FK look-ups, obtaining Query Count without actually executing a query, and performing an exclusive server-side commit from Forms. The book also covers object-oriented methods in Forms, and Intelligence in Forms. Code segments are provided to help developers implement these techniques, thus easing application development time and effort.