Converting Forms to HTML

Forms can easily be saved for use by a Web environment. The Run Form Web on the developer tool bar is useful to view what the form would look like in a Web browser (the traffic light with the globe behind it runs the form in a Web browser). It is also a convenient way to code and debug a form that is destine for Web access.

When deployed, the form runtime will actually run on the application server and interact with an applet that will actually display the form on the Web browser. Figure 5.69 illustrates that the applet will be downloaded to the Web browser but that the form runtime will actually run on the Oracle9iAS server.

Figure 5.69. Web Forms runtime environment.

To run Forms Developer applications on the Web, you ...

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