About Oracle Forms Packages
Oracle Forms provides the following predefined packages:
- Dynamic Data Exchange(DDE) is a mechanism for applications to exchange data
in Microsoft Windows.
- The Component Object Model (COM) was introduced as OLE2, which extends the
compound document solution to address the larger scope of sharing services.
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- The ORA_FFI package allows you to access foreign (3GL) functions.
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- The ORA_DE is an internal package. Do not use this package.
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- The ORA_NLS package enables you to extract high-level information about
your current language environment.
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- The Standard package contains PL/SQL procedures and functions.
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- The STANDARD Extensions package contains Oracle Forms Built-in procedures
and functions.
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- The STPROC is an internal package. Do not use this package.
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- The TEXT_IO package allows you to read and write information to a file in
the file system.
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- The TOOL_ENV package allows you to interact with Oracle environment variables.
- The TOOL_ERR package allows you to define error handling.
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- The TOOL_RES package allows you to extract string resources from a resource
file.
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Note: PL/SQL also offers some supplied packages,
and those procedures can be called from within PL/SQL code in a Forms application.
However, any such procedure with a name beginning DBMS_ is available only on
the server (not on the client).