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About Oracle Forms Packages

Oracle Forms provides the following predefined packages:

DDE
Dynamic Data Exchange(DDE) is a mechanism for applications to exchange data in Microsoft Windows.
OLE2
The Component Object Model (COM) was introduced as OLE2, which extends the compound document solution to address the larger scope of sharing services.
ORA_FFI 
The ORA_FFI package allows you to access foreign (3GL) functions.
ORA_DE 
The ORA_DE is an internal package. Do not use this package.
ORA_NLS 
The ORA_NLS package enables you to extract high-level information about your current language environment.
Standard 
The Standard package contains PL/SQL procedures and functions.
Standard Extensions 
The STANDARD Extensions package contains Oracle Forms Built-in procedures and functions.
STPROC 
The STPROC is an internal package. Do not use this package.
TEXT_IO 
The TEXT_IO package allows you to read and write information to a file in the file system.
TOOL_ENV 
The TOOL_ENV package allows you to interact with Oracle environment variables.
TOOL_ERR
The TOOL_ERR package allows you to define error handling.
TOOL_RES 
The TOOL_RES package allows you to extract string resources from a resource file.
 

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).