Oracle Forms 12c Installation

Okt 28, 2015

Our Weblogic Consultant Alex Bertmann did a great job to figure out what you need to do to get Oracle Forms 12c installed.

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The installation seems to be straight forward. but see for yourself what his experience is:

Hi at all,

it is my first experience with Oracle Forms 12c.

Installation steps in order:

  1. Min 8 Gb RAM
  2. Static IP (or Loopback Adapter for Windows)
  3. Deactivate AntiVirus + Firewall
  4. Install JDK 1.8.0_51+   (as Administrator / with Administrator privileges)
  5. Add JDK_HOMEbin in %PATH% (first in the list)
  6. Install WLS (now it’s Infrastructure)    (as Administrator / with Administrator privileges)
     java -jar fmw_12.2.1.0.0_infrastructure.jar
  7. Run Forms & Reports installation without configuration   (as Administrator / with Administrator privileges)
  8. Run RCU installation (C:OracleMiddlewareOracle_Homeoracle_commonbin). The DB’s instance should have Character Set as AL32UTF8 and DB -> Enterprise Edition (12.1.0.1+; 11.2.0.4+)
  9. Run config.bat  (as Administrator / with Administrator privileges)

In this version of Forms we have to forget about Forms instance. Now all components (OHS, Reports, em) we can find in our domain (user_projects …)

Default location of Domain -> C:OracleMiddlewareOracle_Homeuser_projectsdoimainsbase_domain

  1. After configuration we run Node Manager (startNodeManager) then start Admin Server (startWebLogic) (-> C:OracleMiddlewareOracle_Homeuser_projectsdoimainsbase_domainbin)
  2. If Admin Server is running then we can start WLS_FORMS and/or WLS_REPORTS (-> C:OracleMiddlewareOracle_Homeuser_projectsdoimainsbase_domainbin)

startManagedServer.cmd WLS_FORMS
startManagedServer.cmd WLS_REPORTS

When I tried to run WLS_REPORTS then I found a BUG -> after record “Enter username …” there is the text and it’s difficult to understand that it’s now your time to type the user in cmd-session.
wls_Rep12c

  1. If WLS_FORMS is running then we can check our registry (regedit) – are entries FORMS_PATH, FORMS_BUILDER_CLASSPATH in it ?

Now we can run Forms Builder.

Thanks again Alex for the great work.

We will check out the new features of Oracle Forms 12c an dkeep you posted.