Today I started to work on my next challenge to upgrade a customized ERP system from Oracle Forms 10g R1 to Oracle Forms 11g…

Till now I haven’t found any positive response regarding it.

In Oracle Forum everybody seem to be too much mixup, no body has any clear idea about it.

Each forum thread about Oracle Forms 11g Rel 1, seem to be full of doubts.

I mean after going through it, I got really in double mind..Should I go for Oracle Forms 11g or I should go to my client and tell them that Oracle has release a unstable product and my advise is to go for old OS i.e. Oracle Server 2003..

But then I did saw few answers and justifications from Grant Ronald , and felt even though there is problem lets go for it..

When Oracle 11g Form was release I did try installing it with my half heart, and felt its too much and too heavy.. Installation seem to going forever..

After so many months, Now I am required to be serious about it as one of my client is upgrading their infrastructure and will be installing Windows Server 2008.

So I have no choice but to go for Oracle 11g Rel 1(Oracle Application Server 10g does not support Windows Server 2008 officially, except with some tweaking at your own risk) ….

Any way every problem is a opportunity to do something new..

So in same spirit I am taking this situation…

Yesterday I try installation in my Laptop (with XP mode), and it failed in between

Today I tried on my Server (Windows Server 2003), again it failed. After going through the error log I got to know that there was already  one service installed (left over from my last installation few months back, didn’t clean it ).

Any way I uninstall the Oracle Forms 11g installed components (including the Weblogic) and then removed this service.

Again First I run wls1031_win32.exe, to installed weblogic server and its component (Used default options).

Then I ran my Oracle Middleware 11g setup.

Choose all default options, except following:

1. Choose no Oracle Support required (Security Updates Screen)

2. No discoverer and No Oracle Portal

3. No OID (Specify Application OID Screen)

After nearly 3 hour, it was successfully installed.

Hurrray…at last I got it running…That’s all for time being

Will keep you guys updated….