Modernizing Oracle Forms
Oracle APEX is the clear platform of choice for modernizing Oracle Forms applications.
HOW IT WORKS?Service
Oracle Forms
The same stored procedures and PL/SQL packages work natively in APEX, making it a breeze to develop.
Oracle Forms, a component of Oracle Fusion Middleware, is an established technology that has been popular for building data applications for decades.
Modernizing your Oracle Forms using Oracle APEX can deliver many benefits to your organization, from helping to adopt cloud-native development practices and reducing costs to delivering a modern user experience.
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Modern & Responsive, Web-based Apps
The Universal Theme within APEX produces modern apps with the ability to declaratively define different theme styles and easily utilize template options to develop apps your end users will love to use.
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Rapid Application Development
Given APEX is metadata-based then it is very quick and easy to maintain or enhance the page definitions as needed. If you need to fully extend a page you can utilize SQL, PL/SQL, JavaScript, HTML, and CSS.
Oracle Forms applications often provide an out-of-date client/server user experience, may have poor usability and accessibility issues, have difficulties working with various browsers, and are not mobile friendly. Finally, it is often difficult and cost prohibitive to hire skilled Oracle Forms developers.
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Cohesive Design Patterns
APEX makes it easy to develop intuitive, accessible apps similar to other popular Web apps. End Users should be able to navigate around and use all the functionality within an APEX app without needing training, which also makes it ideal for customer or partner facing apps.
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Run on *any* Web Browser
Running an APEX app is 100% browser based, and requires no client software. The apps are fully-responsive, making them mobile-ready by default, which means they can run in your browser on any device.
As Oracle APEX and Oracle Forms are both SQL and PL/SQL based, and provide declarative development environments, it is easy for developers to transition from Oracle Forms to Oracle APEX.
Why APEX?
Reduce Costs
To deploy Oracle Forms apps, you require a license that might increase development costs, in contrast, Oracle APEX is a no-cost feature of Oracle Database, meaning if you have Oracle Database, you already have Oracle APEX.
Modern user Experience
Oracle APEX apps are intuitive, easy to use, responsive, mobile friendly and similar to other modern cloud apps end users already use. Forms users won't require any extensive training to use these new APEX apps.
Enterprise App Development
Oracle APEX offers all the facets required for Cloud-Native and on-premises app development, including workflow, forms, charts, reports, maps, REST Services and much more.
Mobile Apps
Oracle APEX apps are fully responsive and can be easily installed as Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) on your device of choice, enabling deeper integration with the mobile operating system and resulting in a more native experience.
True Portability - Build Once Deploy Anywhere
Oracle APEX apps can be deployed anywhere that Oracle Database runs (Oracle Cloud, on-premises, or any third-party cloud). You build your app once and deploy it where you need, no need to rewrite your APEX app.
Elastic Scalability
Auto-scale your Oracle APEX app to support changes in demand from a small group of users to millions of users with ease and without any disruption in service.
Reuse
All of the database programs can be invoked directly from Oracle APEX. Therefore, you do not have to rewrite the database business logic you are already utilizing from Oracle Forms.
Coexistence
Oracle Forms and Oracle APEX can both run side-by-side in the same database using the same database objects. If the two tools fulfill different business requirements, you may have users working with both tools.
Skill Sets
Both frameworks (Forms and APEX) are database-centric, leverage SQL and PL/SQL, and utilize primarily declarative development. Any developers who know SQL can easily be trained to develop with Oracle APEX and become highly proficient in weeks, not months or years.
How can Oracle APEX help?
There are a number of key advantages of using Oracle APEX to modernize your Oracle Forms apps.
Access existing business logic in the database such as packages, procedures, and functions to use in APEX apps, without the need to convert it.
Find more than 15 page types to add to your app easily through the wizard and modify them to meet your business requirements.
Oracle APEX generates apps with highly secure settings out-of-the-box, such as authentication and authorization schemes, session management and cross-site scripting prevention.
New apps are automatically created with a navigation menu populated with entries that link to pages within your application.
Oracle APEX apps include out-of-the-box theme styles for easy control over the layout and presentation of your apps.
Oracle APEX apps include out-of-the-box theme styles for easy control over the layout and presentation of your apps.
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