Oracle Forms in Fusion replaced by Web UI? One of the readers Santosh, raised a very valid question. His Question:- I heard that in Oracle Fusion there will be no forms and it would be of all web pages. Is that correct? Firstly, let me thanks Santosh for raising this ever important question. I have heard this from various circles that Oracle will phase out Oracle Forms. Fusion may be the right time, but there is no official word as yet(unless I missed it). The SelfService Framework as it stands(despite its PPR-Partial Page Rendering) stands no chance of replacing the Oracle Forms D2K. It looks extremely unlikely that Oracle Forms will be ditched alltogether in Fusion, because:- a. It is impossible to Execute a query(in OAF or ADF) within a section of the screen, without using Search Section ( yucks ! cumbersome). b. Basic functionality like copying the field from prior record field, by hitting single KeyStroke, is not possible in Oracle Framework. c. If fusion is all about web services, then why did Oracle Forms team bother integrating Oracle Forms with Web Services? Oracle's Article Link d. Why did Oracle invest time to make personalizations work on Oracle Forms (in 11.5.10). Looks like there is a competetion ongoing between the forms & Web product teams. e. Oracle Forms is a part of Oracle's Fusion Middleware. I suspect that in Fusion, Oracle will provide every possible business functionality on the web UI. But for the power user requirements(high volume data entry), Oracle might provide D2k type interface using Oracle Forms for some selected few screens. One school of thought against this could be that, high data entry is slowly becoming a thing of past. This is being made possible by de-centralization of operations, which were traditionally back office operations. iProc, iRecruitment, iExpenses etc are prime examples to testify this claim. With the advent of XML & Web Services based integration, re-keying of data will slowly become a thing of past. Take a scenario below:- Company A will raise Purchase Order to Company B, using iProc. This company B will then process the sales Order & ship the same. Shipment confirmation will be sent electronically by XML and Invoice can be received by Company A using XML Gateway and imported into Oracle Payables. Given that no data entry happens anywhere(except from the iProc Self Service user) the possibility of Auto Matching the Payables invoice becomes very high indeed. The Company A will have scheduled Payables batches, that will initiate Payment electronically using BACS/ACH/SWIFT etc. Now the company B will receive a Bank Statement electronically which will be reconciled with the originating sales Order and hence recognising the revenue. And this technology is already here with us in Oracle, working perfectly well. What is lacking is the widespread & speedy adaptation of this technology. But this will happen, because I see this happening already. What will be the core Fusion UI be based upon.... Oracle Forms? Ans: Certainly not Oracle Apps Framework ( OAF ) ? Ans: Not really Oracle ADF? Ans: Highly possible. But will the ADF be UIX or JSF based.......well I do not know. Will Oracle Fusion UI be web 2.0..... Answer: This is unlikely, as Web 2.0 is yet to be tested on Enterprise Wide large Applications. But yes, one thing is for certain, one day Oracle will release Fusion 2.0 which will support Web 2.0 Cheers Anil Passi