Oracle Forms

Oracle Forms Builder provides a powerful ‘GUI’ to design such forms. Whole objects, properties and triggers can be selected through simply clicking on an appropriate icon. The Forms wizard can be used to quickly create forms. This tool permits commercial application developers to design forms which will capture validate and store data with the extremely minimum of coding.

Forms  Builder,  Oracle’s  Graphical User Interface  based  forms  creation  tool  comprises  of  the  subsequent components:

•    Forms Builder
•    Forms Compiler
•    Forms Runtime

Forms Builder is what is used create a form. The layout and design of data entry screens and the creation of event driven PL/SQL code used for data validation and navigation can be done through Forms Builder.

Forms Compiler is needed to compile the file created in Forms Builder and create a binary file that can be executed through Forms Runtime.Forms Runtime is used to run the compile code created through Forms Compiler. To run an Oracle form only the Forms Runtime module is needed. At the time of software deployment only the Forms Runtime module require to be installed on machines on that forms created through Forms Builder are deployed.

To create, add program code, test and debug on Oracle form, a complete installation of Oracle Forms Builder is needs.