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Oracle Forms to Java Migration / Modernization
If any of your IT applications are running on Oracle*Forms environment, you better hurry to
migrate them to safer and stable environment.
Non-availability of qualified manpower, growing maintenance fees, proprietary technology with an
uncertain long term direction, and inadequate enhancements are some of the pressing challenges to
warrant Oracle*Forms migration initiatives.
Styrone Inc [Formerly known as Goldstone Info Systems] presents robust,
cost-effective, and automated tools-based migration/ modernization solutions for Oracle*Forms
applications. As a proven leader in legacy migration solutions, our approach combines retention of
the business logic, efficiency of automated tools, and agility of re-architecture to be consistent
with enterprise architecture standards.
Our migration solutions have known to provide up to 60% cost benefits, compared to manual
re-write. With an unprecedented flexibility to re-architect (for example, thick-client to
thin-client, or SOA based or restructuring the database code to reduce the load on the database
server) or for straight migration (one-to-one with refactoring), you are assured of best-in-class
solution with least investments.
Oracle*Forms to Java/J2EE
Java/J2EE is now corporate standard for applications development. Legacy migration, and
particularly Oracle*Forms migration, to Java technology can be expensive and risky, if not
implemented with a sound methodology. Styrone Inc brings years of experience and scores of legacy
migrations across the globe.
Styrone’s Oracle*Forms to Java migration solutions include:
- Automated conversion tools, for accuracy and efficiency
- Providing recommendations / solutions for the issues that are there in the current
application
- Reducing the load on the database server by moving the database code into respective coding
layers based on the requirement
- Robust migration methodology
- Re-architecture for web-clients or SOA
- Adoption of industry-standard design patterns and frameworks
- Best practices of application management
- Global delivery model, where needed, for faster and cheaper implementations
Automated Tools
Styrone Inc uses a suite of proprietary tools for Oracle*Forms Migration. Our tools assist in
every phase of the project – starting form assessment, to GUI design, to business logic
conversion. Our tools work for all versions of Oracle*Forms. The migrated code can be deployed on
any J2EE-compliant application servers such as Websphere, Weblogic, Jboss, Oracle iAS etc. to take
the advantage of extensive capabilities of enterprise applications. These tools will help to
improve the developer productivity which intern reduces the total migration time of the
application. These automated tools will remove the human errors from the migration process
Methodology
Oracle*Forms applications usually provide critical business functionalities and are, therefore,
often complex. Our migration approach recognizes and accommodates the need of businesses to
continually evolve the application under migration.
While our automated migration tools guarantee significant savings in effort and costs, our proven
and perfected ‘Oracle*Forms Migration Process’ is equally important for successful
Oracle*Forms migration. Be it scoping the project, or selecting a suitable candidate for
proof-of-concept (POC), or validating target architecture, or slicing the application for allowing
the changes in the source application while the migration is under progress - our approach takes
care of it all.
Our Oracle*Forms migration approach consists of –
- Assessment
- Architecture Migration using compatible J2EE architecture patterns and design patterns
suitable for target environment.
- Architecture validation to validate the critical architectural parameters to study and
understand in the existing system and to propose the equivalent in the migrated system
- Preparing the application specific reusable frameworks which will provide the extendibility
and better maintainability of the application
- Source Code Migration using automated migration tools followed by manual re-factoring
- GUI Migration to equivalent in J2EE using automated tools
- Business logic Migration to equivalent in J2EE using automated tools
- Identification of reusable business components and expose them as services
- Code traceability of existing code to the migrated code to ensure all code migrated properly
- Identification of dead code and removing it
- Using standard open source frameworks for the application development
- Unit testing, Integration testing, system testing, user-acceptance testing for each vertical
Slice
- Parallel co-existence of Oracle*Forms and J2EE systems during migration cycle
- System testing and user-acceptance testing for the entire migrated application
- Deployment of migrated system in production environment
The migrated code is completely independent of oracle forms environment. It will not maintain any
wrappers and directly runs on Java / J2EE environment.
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