3 ways to succeed with your oracle forms to adf migration
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3 ways to succeed with your Oracle Forms to
ADF migration
www.dreamix.eu blog.dremix.eu
3 ways to succeed with your Oracle Forms to ADF migration
www.dreamix.eu blog.dremix.eu
Many software managers and CTOs fail to identify the potential pitfalls of Oracle Forms to ADF migration. The result is countless hours of development effort spent to re-write your existing application and deliver ‘new’ software system (may it be ERP or CRM) that end users refuse to work with.
This presentation shows 3 major points that will show you how to go through the migrational process and deliver great product that will not only make your users happy, but also push the whole organization to the next level.
1) Be the innovator, just like someone was 20 years ago
3 ways to succeed with your Oracle Forms to ADF migration
www.dreamix.eu blog.dremix.eu
Twenty years ago, Oracle Forms used to be top-notch !
Remember the time when your company started using it?
- a life-turning event, just like the moment when you start using
Oracle ADF!
Уou need to copy the innovative approach !
1) Be the innovator, just like someone was 20 years ago
3 ways to succeed with your Oracle Forms to ADF migration
www.dreamix.eu blog.dremix.eu
Here are some tips on this:
• watch presentations and videos about ADF (e.g. Oracle video tutorials)
• get acquanted with the UI features the new technology provides
http://jdevadf.oracle.com/adf-richclient-demo/faces/
• understand how you benefit from ADF Web Architecture
• understand how ADF can lead you to the SOA and BPM world
• research about products that boost the migration process – e.g. JHeadstart and FormADFApp
2) Do not code in the dark - involve all users and stakeholders as early as possible
3 ways to succeed with your Oracle Forms to ADF migration
www.dreamix.eu blog.dremix.eu
Imagine you
• are working with an existing Oracle Forms in your company.
• are forced to start using the new ADF Banking Portal.
How would you feel?
How are you going to do your daily tasks with this brand new system, that already has tons of new features and the old ones just don’t look the same?
The solution?
• involve your users from day one!
• don’t keep the ADF product in the dark for too long. Get feedback and engage the stakeholders as early as possible !
• your Forms Application is a product of iterative changes and development for several years – you cannot achieve the same quality from scratch!
3) Don’t abandon valuable resources - reuse existing Forms and Reports
3 ways to succeed with your Oracle Forms to ADF migration
www.dreamix.eu blog.dremix.eu
How you can start using the new ADF product without completing all screens and user scenarios?
How you can put the system to production without having the reports migrated ?
The answer to both questions is: integrate the existing Oracle Forms and Reports in the new ADF application. This has
many benefits including:
• Reuse the existing reports by calling the from the new ADF pages
• Present the new ADF application while it still does not have any ADF forms in it
• Migrate form by form, gradually replacing the old Oracle forms with ADF ones
• Migrate module by module
• Give the users ability to use the old Forms until they get comfortable with the new ones
