Chapter 6. Managing Forms and Reports Services and Applications

Oracle Forms and Reports are components of Oracle Developer Suite and are very popular tools used to build enterprise applications. These were primarily used to build client-server applications. However, Forms Services and Report Services components of Oracle Application Servers allowed users to deploy Oracle Forms and Reports in the web and therefore, Oracle Forms and Reports became very widely deployed applications in many organizations. Also, many packaged applications such as Oracle eBusiness Suite use Oracle Forms and Reports. In the previous chapter we learnt about the management of Oracle Application Server.

In this chapter, we will learn about the management of Oracle Forms and Reports Services and Forms applications from Grid Control. We will discuss the following:

• Architecture of Oracle Forms and Reports Server

• Monitoring of Forms Server, Reports Server, and Forms applications

• Cloning and provisioning of Oracle Forms...