Timeouts in Oracle Forms

By default, Oracle Forms is not configured to have sessions timeout after a session has been idle for a specific period of time. However, it can be possible to either configure timeouts in Oracle Forms or to have Forms sessions time out due to outside factors. In...

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...

Datetime Issues in Forms 12c

There is a known bug in Forms 12c that the DATETIME item in Forms is set to a different time than what is configured in the Windows or UNIX server. Oracle Support has reported this issue in AIX, but it has been seen in both Windows and Linux as well. The easiest way...