Summary

Oracle Forms and Reports are a very popular framework to build enterprise applications on. Oracle Forms and Reports Server run on top of Oracle Application Server. Forms and Reports Services are automatically discovered when Oracle Application Server is discovered. Grid Control allows monitoring of Forms and Reports Server and Forms applications. You can use Forms Transactions and beacons to manage the service level for Forms applications. Grid Control also helps automation of Forms and Reports Server by providing a deployment procedure.

In the next chapter, we'll be learning about the management and monitoring of BPEL Process Manager, that is used for orchestration of services of Service Oriented Architecture. We'll also learn how Enterprise Manager helps in monitoring the business processes that are executed using BPEL Process Manager.