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Forms Listener Servlet

A Forms runtime component that manages the creation of a Forms runtime process for each client and manages the network communications between the client and its associated Forms runtime process.

Resource Adapters

A Java EE component that implements the Java EE Connector architecture for a specific Enterprise Information System.

Forms Servlet

A Java servlet to start, stop, and communicate with the Forms runtime process. The Forms runtime is what executes the code contained in a particular Forms application.

Forms API

A PL/SQL packaged procedure which can be used as an alternative entry point into the system to the traditional online forms.

Enterprise Manager Console

A central point of control through a GUI that provides drag and drop systems management. The Oracle Enterprise Manager Console consists of: Menus that primarily manipulate objects in the Console windows Toolbars that provide graphic icons that represent most menu items Tools palette for executing applications and utilities Four windows that provide a general view of the system being managed and an interface to the Oracle Enterprise Manager common services.

Thick Client

A client in client-server architecture or network and typically provides rich functionality, independent of the server. In these types of applications, the major processing is done at the client side and involves only aperiodic connection to the server.

Web Applications

A client-server computer program in which the client (including the user interface and client-side logic) runs in a web browser. Common examples include webmail, online retail sales, online auctions, wikis, instant messaging services and many other functions.

Forms Client Applet

A collection of Java Archive files (JAR).

Application Development Framework

A commercial Java framework for building enterprise applications. It provides visual and declarative approaches to Java EE development.

FMX File

A compiled file that is used for input to be executed by the Forms Builder's runtime engine.

Oracle Access Manager

A complete solution designed to securely enable business transformation with mobile and social networking technologies, hybrid on-premise and cloud applications deployment, and hybrid access management deployment while preserving a seamless user experience, centralized administration, and market-leading performance and scalability

forms.conf

A configuration file that defines virtual directories (aliases) and servlet mount points to map URL requests to the Forms Servlets running in the OC4J servlet engine.

default.env

A file that defines the forms runtime parameters for a specific environment. All custom environment files should be derived from this file.

WebLogic Server Infrastructure

A framework that supports the deployment of many types of distributed applications and is an ideal foundation for building applications based on service-oriented architecture (SOA).

Security APIs

A free, open source, web application security control library that makes it easier for programmers to write lower-risk applications. This set of applications are designed to make it easier for programmers to retrofit security into existing applications.

Enterprise Service Bus

A fundamental component of Oracle's Services-Oriented Architecture suite of products, provides seamless integration of data and enterprise applications within an organization and their connected ( "extended" or "virtual") enterprises.

Integration Service Bus

A fundamental component of Oracle's Services-Oriented Architecture suite of products, provides seamless integration of data and enterprise applications within an organization and their connected ( "extended" or "virtual") enterprises.

FMB File

A group of characters that identify the form binary source files generated in the Forms Builder's IDE.

Oracle Workflow

A management system that supports business process definition and automation. Its technology enables automation and continuous improvement to business processes, routing information of any type according to user-defined business rules.

XML

A markup language that defines a set of rules for encoding documents in a format that is both human-readable and machine-readable.

Oracle Content Management Software Development Kit

A platform for. developing content-oriented applications. It provides a run-time environment and Java-based APIs.

Forms Runtime Prestart

A process that enables the startup of a configurable number of application engines prior to their usage. Using this means, it provides quick connections at server peak times, which shortens the server-side application startup time. It is useful for situations where server configurations have a small window in which many users connect to a Forms application. All such engines run in the same environment serving the same application. Also known as Pooling.

Forms Runtime

A process that sits on Middle Tier and is managed by the Forms Listener Servlet. This process plays two roles: when it communicates with the client browser, it acts as a server by managing requests from client browsers and it sends metadata to the client to describe the user interface; when it is communicating with the database server, it acts as a client by querying the database server for requested data. It also contains the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) to run Java in your application.

Oracle WebLogic Server

A scalable, enterprise-ready Java EE application server. ... It forms the core of the Oracle Fusion Middleware platform, and provides a stable framework for building scalable, highly available, and secure applications.

Oracle Reports Services

A scalable, flexible architecture for the distribution and automated management of report generation engines on the same server and across multiple servers. Additionally, it caches output for reuse on similar requests. It integrates into standard Web environments with JSPs, Java servlets, and Web Services. It enables you to execute on both local and remote application servers and to implement a multitiered architecture.

Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB)

A server-side software component that encapsulates business logic of an application. This web container provides a runtime environment for web related software components, including computer security, Java servlet lifecycle management, transaction processing, and other web services.

Oracle Enterprise Manager Fusion Middleware Control

A set of web-based tools aimed at managing software and hardware produced by Oracle Corporation as well as by some non-Oracle entities.

Oracle Application Server

A single integrated packaged solution of for middleware infrastructure including Oracle Containers for J2EE, Oracle Web Cache, Oracle HTTP Server, Oracle Forms, Oracle Reports, Oracle Portal and Oracle Discoverer.

Oracle Forms

A software product for creating screens that interact with an Oracle database. It has an IDE including an object navigator, property sheet and code editor that uses PL/SQL. It was originally developed to run server-side in character mode terminal sessions.

Identity Management

A software suite marketed by Oracle Corporation, provides identity and access management (IAM) technologies.

Oracle Designer

A software tool for analyzing business requirements and for designing and generating client/server systems that meet those requirements. This product incorporates support for business process modeling, systems analysis, software design and system generation.

Java Platform

A suite of programs that facilitate developing and running programs written in the Java programming language. This will include an execution engine (called a virtual machine), a compiler and a set of libraries; there may also be additional servers and alternative libraries that depend on the requirements. This component is not specific to any processor or operating system as these items have been implemented for a wide variety of hardware and operating systems with a view to enable this component's programs to run identically on all of them.

Enterprise Manager Grid Control

A system management software that delivers centralized monitoring, administration, and life cycle management functionality for the complete Oracle IT infrastructure, including systems running Oracle and non-Oracle technologies.

Java Messaging Service (JMS)

A system that allows clients to be de-coupled from one another. The clients do not communicate with each other directly, but rather by sending messages to each other through middleware. The client makes use of these APIs, allowing portability with any of this component's implementation.

Oracle Application Server Integration

A system that integrates Oracle applications with third-party applications or third-party messaging middleware. ... The InterConnect Repository Server is a standalone Java application, and the repository is a database that stores the design-time metadata definition.

Oracle Application Server Integration InterConnect

A system that integrates Oracle applications with third-party applications or third-party messaging middleware. This integration can be deployed within an enterprise or across enterprise boundaries through the Internet.

Java ServerPages (JSP)

A technology that helps software developers create dynamically generated web pages based on HTML, XML, or other document types. This component is similar to PHP and ASP, but it uses the Java programming language.

Oracle Reports

A tool for developing reports against data stored in an Oracle database. It consists of Oracle Reports Developer (a component of the Oracle Developer Suite) and Oracle Application Server Reports Services (a component of the Oracle Application Server).

Forms Compiler

A tool that is part of the Forms Builder framework that creates a machine language file (.fmx) based on the form binary file (.fmb). This process can also be performed from the command line level or in batch, but this occurs very infrequently.

Remote Method Invocation (RMI)

A way that a programmer, using the Java programming language and development environment, can write object-oriented programming in which objects on different computers can interact in a distributed network.

Portal

A web platform that allows organizations to quickly and easily create intranets, extranets, composite applications, and self-service portals, providing users a more secure and efficient way of consuming information and interacting with applications, processes, and other users.

Oracle HTTP Server

A web server based on the Apache HTTP Server, created by the Oracle Technology Network. The web server is based on Apache version 2.2. OHS, like Apache 2.2, includes support for IPv6. It is a Web Tier component of the Oracle Fusion Middleware.

Spring Framework

An application framework and inversion of control container for the Java platform. It's core features can be used by any Java application, but there are extensions for building web applications on top of the Java EE platform.

JDBC (Java Database Connectivity)

An application program interface (API) specification for connecting programs written in Java to the data in popular databases.

SOA (Service Oriented Architecture)

An approach used to create a structure based upon the use of services. Services (such as RESTful Web services) carry out some small function, such as producing data, validating a customer, or providing simple analytical services.

Distributed Object Computing

An architecture, a paradigm, and a set of technologies whereby objects can be shared across a heterogeneous network in such a manner that arbitrary assemblies of these objects can operate as a single entity.

PL/SQL Engine

An engine that compiles and executes PL/SQL blocks and subprograms. This component can be installed in an Oracle server or in an application development tool such as Oracle Forms.

Client Side JavaScript

An extended version of JavaScript that enables the enhancement and manipulation of web pages and client browsers

Discoverer Plus

An intuitive ad-hoc query, reporting, analysis, and Web-publishing tool that empowers business users at all levels of the organization to gain immediate access to information from data marts, data warehouses, online transaction processing systems and Oracle E-Business Suite.

TopLink

An object-to-relational database persistence provider. It has been donated to Eclipse foundation and was renamed EclipseLink.

32 Bit Operating System

An operating system, whose CPU handles 32 bits of RAM at a time.

64 Bit Operating System

An operating system, whose CPU handles 64 bits of RAM at a time.

Web Services

Any piece of software that makes itself available over the internet and uses a standardized XML messaging system.

Oracle Form Services

Concept that was developed with release 11g to map into SOA. Its components consist of 1) Client 2) Forms Listener Servlet 3) Forms Runtime Process 4) Database. The new features introduced 11g Release 2 are: 1) Integration with Oracle Access Manager 2) Schedule forms runtime prestart 3) Enhanced network statistics reports 4) Support for Unicode columns 5) guiMode configuration parameter 6) Forms metric agent 7) Support for URLs in image items and iconic buttons

Oracle Fusion Middleware

Consists of several software products from Oracle Corporation. This component spans multiple services, including Java EE and developer tools, integration services, business intelligence, collaboration, and content management.

Event Type

Describes the nature of the event.

Asynchronous Event Call

In multithreaded computer programming, a design pattern in which the call site is not blocked while waiting for the called code to finish. Instead, the calling thread is notified when the reply arrives.

Client Tier

It is also called as Presentation layer which contains UI part of our application. This layer is used for the design purpose where data is presented to the user or input is taken from the user. For example designing registration form which contains text box, label, button etc.

Application InterConnect Toolkit

It is designed to integrate heterogeneous systems, be it Oracle and PeopleSoft Applications, nonOracle applications, or 3rd party messaging oriented middleware (MOM). This integration can be deployed either within an enterprise or across enterprise boundaries through the Internet.

32 Bit JVM/JDK

Java Development Kit for 32 bit OS. Currently most Chrome browsers are set at 32 bit, which limits the available higher 64 bit versions that most Macs (Safaris) have.

Java EE

Java SE plus various APIs which are useful for multi-tier client-server enterprise applications.

EM Agent

One of the core components of Enterprise Manager Cloud Control that enables you to convert an unmanaged host to a managed host in the Enterprise Manager system. It works in conjunction with the plug-ins to monitor the targets running on that managed host.

Asynchronous Event

One that occurs at an unpredictable time outside the control of the program that the CPU is running.

API

Oracle Form application-programming interface that provides a supported way for developers to query and manipulate their Forms modules in batch, without having to open the module in Forms Builder.

Mods

Oracle HTTP Server Modules.

Discoverer Viewer

Software that is used to view reports written against the data available in the VSPS Product Import Facilities Tables. These reports are unformatted and appear as a tabular spreadsheet. The data can be viewed, printed, or extracted into various file formats for manipulation in another application, such as Excel.

3-Tier Architecture

The Desktop/Client Tier, which is supported and managed by the Application Tier (Oracle products), which also supports and manages the Database Tier.

Java SE

The Standard Edition which lets you develop and deploy Java applications on desktops and servers.

Development

The act of creating a computer application.

Web Container

The component of a web server that interacts with Java servlets. This element is responsible for managing the lifecycle of servlets, mapping a URL to a particular servlet and ensuring that the URL requester has the correct access-rights.

Database Tier

The component of the 3-Tier architecture that contains the Data Server and holds all the data stored and maintained by Oracle Applications system. There are basically two types of database objects: Data Objects like Oracle apps Tables, Indexes, sequences etc.. and Code Objects like Stored Procedures, Packages, functions,triggers etc. This tier does not communicate with the desktop tier directly, Application tier provides the end user with information.

Event Scope

The determinator of whether the Event action is applied globally to all objects or to the specific object that triggered the Event.

Event Name

The name of some kind of user interaction that is related to Java/Object-Oriented coding.

WebLogic Tuxedo Connectivity (WTC)

The process of providing interoperability between WebLogic Server applications and Tuxedo services. This integration allows WebLogic Server clients to invoke Tuxedo services and Tuxedo clients to invoke EJBs in response to a service request.

WebLogic Server Basic

This component is only for running components provided within these products such as Forms, Reports, Discoverer and Portal. It can also be used for custom Java applications such as those developed for Oracle Containers for J2EE.

formsweb.cfg

This file defines parameter values used by the FormsServlet (frmservlet). It deteremines the look and feel of your Oracle Forms output.

Web Forms Runtime

This process is where Oracle Forms runs on the Web, and manages application logic and processing.

JavaScript

This program is commonly used in Web applications as logic executed in the Web browser to provide functionality such data validations or dynamic user interface behaviors. Oracle HTML DB provides several ways to include component's libraries and endless ways to incorporate the calling of this component's functions into the user interface.

Middle Tier

This set of Oracle Portal components typically installed into a single Oracle home. A single enterprise can have one or more Fusion Middleware installations, either residing on one host, or for more complex installations, distributed across multiple hosts. Includes the Application and Web tiers.

Deployment

To install, test and implement a computer system or application.