Preface

This guide contains information on upgrading Oracle Forms and Reports applications from Oracle9iAS Release 2 (9.0.2) Server 9.0.2 to OracleAS Forms and Reports Services 10g (9.0.4).

Intended Audience

This guide is intended for developers, system administrators, and DBAs who develop, deploy, and manage Oracle Application Server Forms Services and Oracle Application Server Reports Services applications in Oracle Application Servers.

Structure

Chapter 1, " Performing an Upgrade "

This chapter describes the OracleAS Forms and Reports Services upgrade process, and explains how to use the OracleAS Upgrade Assistant to perform the majority of the Oracle Application Server Forms Services upgrade.

Chapter 2, " Troubleshooting"

This chapter contains information you need to know about troubleshooting and resolving errors that may occur during an upgrade.

Chapter 3, " Completing the Upgrade"

This chapter describes tasks you may need to perform to complete the upgrade after the OracleAS Upgrade Assistant has finished processing. Some or all of these may be necessary, depending on the configuration upgraded.

Conventions

When discussing upgrade, it is necessary to distinguish between the Oracle home of the previous release and the Oracle home of the new release. In this guide, the previous release’s Oracle home is called the source Oracle home. The new release’s Oracle home is called the destination Oracle home. Typically, it is also necessary to specify the Oracle home as a full path in file locations. The convention for the Oracle home path is included in these typographic conventions used in the guide:

Convention	Meaning
. . .	Vertical ellipsis points in an example mean that information not directly related to the example has been omitted.
. . .	Horizontal ellipsis points in statements or commands mean that parts of the statement or command not directly related to the example have been omitted
monospace text	File names, path names, command names, code, URLs
`monospace bold text`	Typed user input.
`monospace italic text`	Variables in text or code.
`<``source_MT_OH``>`	The full path to the Release 2 (9.0.2) middle tier Oracle home.
`<``destination_MT_OH``>`	The full path to the 10g (9.0.4) middle tier Oracle home.

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