Contents

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Preface

1 Before You Install

1.1 What You Receive

1.2 Hardware and Software Requirements

1.2.1 For Forms Developer Itself

1.2.1.1 Hardware

1.2.1.2 Operating System

1.2.1.3 RAM for Design Time

1.2.1.4 RAM for Runtime

1.2.2 Related Software

1.2.2.1 Database Server

1.2.2.2 Web Server

1.3 Where to Install: ORACLE_HOME Considerations

1.4 New Install versus Upgrade

1.5 Deployment on Web or Client/Server?

1.6 Check the Release Notes

2 Installing as a New Customer

2.1 Installing the Design-Time Components

2.1.1 Step 1: Start the Oracle Installer

2.1.2 Step 2: Choose an Install Method

2.1.2.1 Custom installation

2.2 Installing the Runtime Components

2.3 Connecting to the Oracle Server

3 Installing as an Upgrade

3.1 Upgrading the Product

3.2 Upgrading Your Applications

3.2.1 Redeploying Your Applications on the Web

4 If You Have to Deinstall

4.1 Removing the Forms Developer Product

5 Setting Up Tables to Store Applications

5.1 Building the Database Tables

5.1.1 Step 1: Installing the SQL scripts with the Oracle Installer

5.1.2 Step 2: Building the Oracle Developer database tables

5.2 Proper Use of these Tables

5.3 Granting and Revoking User Access

5.3.1 Granting access to the database tables

5.3.2 Revoking access to the database tables

5.4 Deleting the Database Tables

5.5 Upgrading the Database Tables

5.5.0.1 Step 1: Back up the database contents

5.5.0.2 Step 2: Upgrade the tables

5.5.0.3 Step 3: Restore the database contents

5.5.0.4 Step 4: Grant user access again

6 What's Next?

6.0.1 If You're a New Forms Developer

6.0.2 If You're an Experienced Forms Developer

Index