Oracle Forms 11gR2 Extended Support Expiration Notice

Mar 27, 2018 | Forms

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...

Java 8 End of Public Updates Notice

Feb 22, 2018 | Forms, PITSS.CON

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...

Java Plugin Notice for Oracle Forms and Reports

Jul 27, 2017 | Forms

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

Jul 18, 2017 | Forms

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...