Preface

This installation guide covers requirements, new features in the installer, concepts that affect installation, compatibility with other products, requirements, and post-installation tasks.

Intended Audience

This guide is intended for users who are comfortable performing some system administration operations, such as creating users and groups, adding users to groups, and installing operating system patches on the computer where Oracle Application Server 10g Forms and Reports Services is going to be installed. Users who are installing Oracle Application Server 10g Forms and Reports Services need root access to run some scripts.

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Structure of This Guide

This guide contains the following chapters:

Chapter 1, " Introduction to Oracle Application Server 10g Forms and Reports Services "

This chapter introduces you to Oracle Application Server 10g Forms and Reports Services and provides an overview of the components.

Chapter 2, " Installation Overview"

This chapter provides an overview of the installation steps.

Chapter 3, " What is New in the Installation"

This chapter describes new features in Oracle Application Server 10g Forms and Reports Services that affect the installation procedure.

Chapter 4, " Compatibility with Earlier Versions"

This chapter describes possible side-effects when you install and run Oracle Application Server 10g Forms and Reports Services on a computer that is already running other products.

Chapter 5, " Requirements"

This chapter lists the requirements for installing and running Oracle Application Server 10g Forms and Reports Services.

Chapter 6, " Post-Installation Tasks"

This chapter describes the post-installation tasks you need to perform to ensure complete installation of Oracle Application Server 10g Forms and Reports Services.

Related Documents

For more information, see the following guides:

• Oracle Application Server 10g Forms and Reports Services Release Notes

• Oracle Application Server Reports Services Publishing Reports to the Web

• Oracle Reports Building Reports

• Getting Started with Oracle Reports, available on the Oracle Technology Network (http://otn.oracle.com/products/reports/)

• Oracle Forms Migrating Forms Applications from Forms 6i

• Oracle Application Server Forms Services Deployment Guide 10g (9.0.4) for Windows and UNIX

Conventions

This guide uses the following conventions:

Convention	Meaning
boldface text	Boldface type in text indicates objects (such as buttons and fields) on screens.
code	Text in the code font indicates file names, commands, or contents of configuration files.
italicized code	Italicized code indicates placeholder text that you need to replace with an appropriate value.
[ ]	Brackets enclose optional clauses from which you can choose one or none.
. . .	Ellipses indicate that extraneous information have been omitted.