About the Object Library
In any development environment, you will always have standards to which you want your developers to adhere as well as common objects which can be reused throughout the development effort.
The Object Library provides an easy method of reusing objects and enforcing standards across the entire development organization.
You can use the Object Library to:
- Create, store, maintain, and distribute standard and reusable objects.
- Rapidly create applications by dragging and dropping predefined objects
to your form.
- There are several advantages to using object libraries to develop applications:
- Object libraries are automatically re-opened when you startup Oracle Forms,
making your reusable objects immediately accessible.
- You can associate multiple object libraries with an application. For example,
you can create an object library specfically for corporate standards, and
you can create an object library to satisfy project-specific requirements.
- Object libraries feature SmartClasses-- objects that you define as being
the standard. You use SmartClasses to convert objects to standard objects.
Related topics
About standards
Displaying the Object Library
Creating a reusable object
Creating a SmartClass