06.05.2024 Stuttgart/Troy – The new Forms2APEX Modeler 24.1.1 is available and it is one thing above all – even more efficient than its predecessor. It has succeeded in automating even more tasks in an Oracle Forms to APEX modernization project. This increase in efficiency and further improvements to the software are the result of current modernization projects in which the Forms2APEX Modeler has already impressed customers and project teams with enormous time savings and high-quality results.
The new and improved functions of Forms2APEX Modeler 24.1.1 at a glance Preparation of the PL/SQL code for transfer to the database
The new PITSS.CON Release
for Oracle Forms 14c
The easy way to upgrade and optimize
Oracle Forms applications
for Oracle Forms 14c
Stuttgart/Troy (MI) 01/21/2025 – Oracle Forms 14c is here. Long awaited, the new Forms Release 14c was published just before Christmas. Oracle Forms 14.1.2 offers numerous new features and is more modern than ever. At PITSS and its PITSS.CON toolset, preparations for Forms 14c are in full swing. The new PITSS.CON release offers numerous new features for Forms 14c. PITSS will give a sneak preview in its webinar on February 19, 2025 with Senior Principal Product Manager Michael Ferrante.
Forms 14c is here and with it numerous new and improved functionalities in the areas of:
- Runtimes
- Forms Builder
- Forms Standalone Launcher
- Administration
- Installation
At PITSS, enthusiasm for the new Oracle Forms 14c release is high and preparations for the enhancements in the new PITSS.CON release are in full swing. Stephan La Rocca, Head of Product Development at PITSS, recommends that his customers upgrade to 14c as soon as possible in order to benefit from the new Forms features: “PITSS.CON can provide you with perfect support for Oracle Forms 14c. This starts even before the upgrade to 14c. With PITSS.CON, the existing application is first cleaned up and thus freed from legacy issues. After the upgrade to Forms 14c, PITSS.CON can be used to roll out the desired new features across all Forms in the entire application at lightning speed. “Our customers will be particularly impressed by the new UI.”
PITSS invites customers and interested parties to a joint webinar with Oracle Senior Principal Product Manager Michael Ferrante on February 19, 2024. In this webinar, not only exciting new functionalities will be presented, but also how to easily enjoy them with the new PITSS.CON release. Register for the webinar here.
Options to upgrade to Oracle Forms 14c stress-free and benefit from it
PITSS offers its customers expert advice, individual support or even complete outsourcing for the new Forms release. From analysis of the Forms application, through the upgrade and optimization to 14c, to further modernization projects – the PITSS.CON products support you in all phases of the maintenance project.
For the perfect start with PITSS.CON and Oracle Forms 14c, PITSS offers various options, depending on the individual customer situation, to familiarize yourself with Oracle Forms 14c or to implement the new features in your own Forms application.
Offer 1:
Oracle Forms 14 Live Experience Workshop
Experience Forms 14c on your own sources.
Offer 2:
Oracle Forms 14 Installation Service
We install everything, such as WLS, FMW incl. development, to evaluate Forms 14 in your own environment at your convenience.
Offer 3:
Regain Control Service
Use the new Oracle Forms version to bring applications up to date: Documentation, cleaning up technical debt and being able to use all Forms 14c features across the board.
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Oracle Forms dependencies are made easily visible
Validations of Forms generated automatically in APEX
Selection of regions is supported
Ingenious project view for management and developers
Better than the APEX Page Wizard
Based on the settings of the blocks in the Oracle Forms application, the new Forms2APEX Modeler creates master-detail relations, buttons for the DML operations and the properties of the region depending on the choice of APEX region types. The created region therefore has the same properties and the same behavior as in the original Oracle Forms application and saves research and rework if the region was created via the Page Wizard. The properties for DML row processing and all column properties, such as formatting, alignment, width etc., are of course also adopted.
More flexible in all aspects: multi-scheme capable
If the Oracle Forms application accesses data from different schemas, be it in block attributes or in the definition of value lists, this information is also transferred identically to the APEX application. This means that objects from other schemas can also be accessed regardless of the parsing schema set.
Automated transfer of all leading texts and labels
For both the form-based and the tabular display, all leading texts and column headings are taken identically from the Oracle Forms layout. This means that if you have made an investment in naming the fields for the user in the past, this investment will be retained. If your application dates back to a time before the use of “Prompts” in Oracle Forms, you can use a graphical wizard to automatically assign the texts from the layout of your application to the fields. Incidentally, this step is essential for efficient internationalization of your application.
Offline database support now possible
It is no longer necessary for the PITSS.CON installation to be installed in the same network as the application database. All necessary data can be exported via an export of the schema definitions (PITSS provides an AGENT on the website: https://pitss.com/download-dbagent/). This decoupling makes it possible, for example, to run the Forms2APEX Modeler as SaaS in the cloud without having to worry about network access. This makes it even easier to start modernizing your Oracle Forms application.
Better and easier user experience
The layout of Forms2APEX Modeler 24.1.1 has been adapted and tidied up, taking into account the current work steps in a modernization. An additional process description page provides the user with further information for carrying out the necessary steps. The release supports the latest Oracle Forms (12.2.1.19), APEX (23.2) and database versions (21c). A release for the current long-term release of the database (23c) is still pending.
The benefits of the new Forms2APEX Modeler 24.1.1
One of the biggest achievements of the new version is the ability to generate APEX fragments. This makes modernization projects significantly faster, more efficient, clearer and error-free. PITSS.CON already scores highly in the following areas:
- Analysis: By looking at every property and every line of code, all important questions are put on the table before the project starts and any surprises during the project are avoided.
- Documentation: From the entire Forms application landscape, which visualizes all navigation options between the Forms modules, to the graphical representation of all tables within a Forms module or the call-stack behind a button, all dependencies within the application can be documented.
- Preparation: Cleaning up technical debt (unused code, redundancies and moving PL/SQL code to the database) has long been a guarantee for efficient modernization and creates a perfectly maintainable application.
With the improved generation of APEX code fragments, it is now possible to develop the new APEX application much faster than it is already possible with the various wizards in APEX. The transfer of pages from the generated templates, for example, ensures that all attributes and validations from Forms are already transferred compared to the page wizards. This not only saves important time, but also prevents a requirement from being overlooked or incorrectly “typed”. This allows developers to concentrate on the essentials: Bringing the added value of APEX into their own application.
With the new release Forms2APEX Modeler 24.1.1, the areas “Fragment Generation” and “Create Management Tasks” from the established and successful “PITSS Modernization Process” have been improved. The goal of simplifying and controlling the application redesign and offering the development team more support while retaining all the degrees of freedom available in APEX has been achieved. The release simplifies the entry into modernization and invites you to start with a first cluster.
