Oracle Forms for Microsoft Windows supports Dynamic Data Exchange(DDE), a mechanism by which applications can communicate and exchange data. DDE client support is a procedural extension to Oracle Forms for Microsoft Windows. A PL/SQL package for DDE support provides application developers with an Application Programming Interface(API) for accessing DDE functionality from within PL/SQL procedures and triggers.
The DDE functions enable Oracle Forms, a DDE client application, to communicate with DDE server applications in the following ways: