Supporting Oracle® Forms and Reports

YoDeveloper is a replacement for Oracle Developer Suite (Forms) / Forms Builder. Implemented in pure JEE6 Enterprise Java, it renders to your browser in pure HTML and Javascript.

YoDeveloper is designed to both maintain and extend existing applications, and to develop new applications for use with YoForms and YoReports. Features include:

a hugely enhanced line-by-line debugger, with detailed error reporting;
'live-editing' of forms via an interface modelled on Forms Builder - allowing immediate viewing / testing of edits / changes;
option to maintain source as XML files, not cryptic FMBs;
intelligent form design.

Timeline

Projected future dates in italics.

Q4 2012 - release beta version of YoDeveloper to our development partners.
January 2012 - completed the 'tree view' facility which allows a developer to view and edit the data underlying a live YoForms session, using an interface modelled on Forms Builder - with the result instantly reflected in the session whether in another browser window, or on the far side of the world. This YoDeveloper feature will be supplied with YoForms pending YoDeveloper completion.
September 2011 - completed an 'alpha' version of YoDeveloper, already in use in-house to assist the rapid, reliable development of YoForms and YoReports.

Become our Partner!

We are looking for Partners with Forms / Reports applications who are willing to participate in our beta testing and development program. Partners will:

guide us as to the most important features to implement in Version 1 of the product;
receive free / discounted licenses to run our YoServer products (depending on the depth of involvement in the program).

If you would like to participate as a Partner, please contact us now.

Oracle developer tools - background

The developer tools for Forms were pretty hot when they came out back in the mid-1980s. Users could quickly build powerful, complex applications - applications which are still running many thousands of major enterprises and their key business processes today.

Now over 20 years have gone by - and the core technologies that underlie Developer Suite (Forms) and Forms Builder have barely changed. That's mainly because the tools were written in C++ - making the software near-impossible to maintain or extend.

Oracle's main response has been to enable plugins that extend the available capabilities. But they are unable to overcome the software's underlying weaknesses, for example as regards debugging.

So, Oracle's developer tools are ... OK. But to propel your Forms, Reports and PL/SQL applications into the future, it's high time for a new, up-to-date development tool. Hence the need for YoDeveloper!