JDeveloper extensions

As a Forms user you can quickly create, maintain and extend sophisticated database applications using Forms' true 4GL screen-painting graphical interface. But migrate those Forms applications to the Java™ language, and what then? You may fear that any changes will need to be hand-coded in Java ... multiplying the cost of maintaining and extending your applications.

Fortunately this is not the case. Oracle's JDeveloper IDE, provided by Oracle free of charge, provides enhanced WYSIWYG capabilities that go well beyond Forms. It also offers more advanced functionality than Forms including superior graphics handling, debugging tools and effective source code control.

It also offers explicit support for Swing, the default platform for in2j migrations, as Oracle explains, with "visual and 4GL editing for Swing that helps developers to get started quickly and also to get quite far without having to learn Swing in depth." [www.oracle.com/technology/pub/articles/nimphius-mills-swing-jsf.html]

To enable you to make the most of JDeveloper, Quintessence Systems has developed its own JDeveloper extensions / plugins, which we provide to our customers free of charge. These allow you to:

• use JDeveloper's WYSIWYG interface to alter, maintain and extend your migrated Java-Forms and Java-Reports.
• use JDeveloper's debugging tools while extending or enhancing your migrated Java applications.