Developing Oracle Forms applications

Oracle senior engineer Albert Lulushi introduces the fundamental concepts of Oracle Forms programming, and shows how Oracle Forms can help you build sophisticated database systems rapidly and efficiently. You'll learn important object-oriented methods, and how they are implemented in Oracle Forms. You'll then construct complete Oracle Forms applications, using the basic tools provided by Oracle Forms: Designer, Generate, and Runtime.

The book takes a close look at the entire family of Oracle Developer/2000 tools for client/server development. You'll learn about every Oracle Forms Designer element -in detail, including Object Navigatior, Layout Editor, Properties Window, and Menu Editor. You'll understand how to use both SQL and PL/SQL, Oracle's unified programming language, in applications development. There is also invaluable, detailed coverage of integrating Oracle Forms applications with the broader Microsoft Windows environment through DDE, OLE, VBX, and OCX controls, user exits, and PL/SQL interfaces.

Concepts and techniques are presented with concrete examples throughout, and sample code is included on the companion disk. The first section of the book is for newcomers; the second part is for intermediate programmers; the following sections cover advanced programming techniques.

No matter your level of proficiencey - or your role in Oracle Forms development - Developing Oracle Forms Applications will make you much more effective.

Table of contents :

Preface

Acknowledgements

1. The First Oracle Forms Application

2. Running the First Form

3. Enhancing the First Form

4. Oracle Forms Designer

5. Object Navigator

6. Layout Editor

7. Properties Window

8. Menu Editor

9. Introduction to SQL

10. Introduction to PL/SQL

11. Object-Oriented Analysis and Design

12. Blocks and Relations

13. Items

14. Controls

15. Windows and Dialog Boxes

16. Record Structures and Other Objects

17. Menus and Toolbars

18. PL/SQL Objects

19. Advanced Topics in PL/SQL

20. Debugging

21. Creating Integrated Developer/2000 Applications

22. Dynamic Data Exchange

23. OLE

24. OLE Automation and VBX Controls

25. Foreign FunctionsF Interface

Index