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About Developer Components

Oracle Forms consists of the following programs, or components, which you can execute independently from a URL, the command line or by clicking on an icon:

Oracle Forms
 
Oracle Forms is the design component you use to create, compile, and run Oracle Forms applications. Using Oracle Forms, you can create three types of modules: forms, menus, and libraries.
 
Forms Runtime
 
Form operators use Forms Services to run the completed application. As an application designer, you can also use Forms Services to test and debug forms during the design stage. Forms Services reads the machine-readable file created by the Form Compiler, and executes the form.
Form Compiler
 

Most often, you use the Form Compiler to create a machine-readable file that Forms Services can execute.

Form Compiler also allows you to convert various representations of a form. Using Form Compiler, you can: