Oracle Forms 11gR2 Extended Support Expiration Notice

Although premier support has ended over a year ago for Forms 11gR2, extended support for it ends at the end of this year. As Forms 12c will be supported for quite a while, it might be a good way to promote 12c and for current 11g customers to upgrade to 12c or perhaps...

Top 5 Java Frameworks

Top 5 Java Frameworks Be it the Tiobe index, the analysis of RedMonks or even the results of PYPL – all evaluation systems of the current programming languages see Java in first place or second only understandable if so for its own software development,...

Java 8 End of Public Updates Notice

Java 8 End of Public Updates Notice Oracle has recently released some information regarding the end of public updates for Java 8 (both the JDK and the JRE). As of February 2018, Oracle plans to end public updates for Java 8 in January 2019. After this time, Oracle...

PITSS.CON 16.2.3 Certificate Expiration and Renewal Notice

NOTICE: PITSS.CON 16.2.3 Certificate Expiration and Renewal The jar files affiliated with PITSS.CON will be expiring November 16, 2017. We’ve released an article that will help PITSS customers understand what needs to be done to renew the affected jar files....

Oracle Forms and Java 9 Support Information

Support Information and Oracle Forms and Java 9 On September 22, 2017, Oracle has released the newest version of Java: Java 9. Downloads for both JDK 9 and JRE 9 are now available on Oracle’s website. Now that Java 9 is now released, a very important question is being...

Java Plugin Notice for Oracle Forms and Reports

Java Plugin Notice for Forms In the past two years, many web browsers such as Firefox and Chrome have de-supported the NPAPI plugin (see https://pitss.com/us/2017/03/08/oracle-forms-in-firefox and https://pitss.com/us/2015/04/16/oracle-forms-google-chrome for more...

Oracle Forms 12c and Java 8

Oracle Forms 12c and Java 8 12c is the latest and greatest version of Oracle Forms. By default, it is supported to run Oracle Forms 12c with Java Runtime Environment (JRE) 8 as well as Java Development Kit (JDK) 8. However, due to new security enhancements with both...