The concept of client information or "client info" is a way to provide some limited extensibility or tagging of Forms Objects. JDAPI supports two types of client info:
java.lang.Object
reference, and accessed using getClientInfo()
and setClientInfo()
methods. This technique is a way to associate a Forms object with any specified
Java object and is not persistent.java.io.Serializable
interface. The accessors are getPersistentClientInfo()
and setPersistentClientInfo()
.
Note that persistent client info in a Forms module can be changed or lost if the module has been altered in some other external way. For example, persistent client info will be lost if the module is passed through the Oracle Forms Forms2XML tool, or design-captured and regenerated from within Oracle Designer.