Realease – Converting Forms to IBM DB2
Realease offers either a product or services to convert Oracle Forms applications to Java running in a DB2 environment. The product uses an automated process that greatly reduces time and cost attributed to manual conversion, and conversion risks are significantly lowered with far less potential for human error.
Using an automated tool, the product Realease converts existing Oracle Forms and PL/SQL applications to open and standards based technologies such as Java, XML and browser based solutions. The product will optionally convert the PL/SQL within the database to EJB Session Beans and Bean managed entity beans or to standard Java classes. The Forms themselves are converted to XML based displays that run within the Java based interface. The product performs this function with a very limited amount of operator intervention.
With Realease, not only is the legacy screen layout designed with Oracle Forms converted but all of the associated supporting code; menus, libraries, PL/SQL procedural code, built-in functions, and stored procedures can be automatically converted. The conversion process generates entirely standalone, portable Java code.
The product converts a like-for-like behavior and then, using the generally more robust features of the new development environment, Java, focuses on new features for the application where necessary. One significant benefit of this methodology is that testing can be a much more controlled phase and the expected outcome is matched to the existing outcome.
Using Realease and the new compatibility features of DB2 allows companies to modernize and quickly enable their Oracle Forms to work with DB2 and avoid paying high licensing costs of the Oracle Forms and Oracle database. DB2's proven automated administration features, deep compression, and industry-leading performance directly help you lower the cost of data and improve service levels. In addition, the tight intergration of DB2 and WebSphere can also generate significant cost savings over other application server options. Application developers and administrators can leverage their existing skills and apply them on DB2, further reducing the TCO of their database and Forms environment.
Main Features & Benefits
The Benefits of Automated Conversion
- Stay competitive
By moving away from proprietary technology to more open and independent solutions, companies can standardize business applications. - Reduce costs
Significantly reduce costs by automating the process of conversions. Organizations can cut the costs attributed to manually converting applications by using an automated tool. - Retain original business logic and code
Get fast and accurate results - Realease converts legacy Forms applications, significantly reducing conversion costs and time. The resulting application retains the same business logic and code structure as the legacy application. In general, behavior of the application is the same in the converted application as it was in the original application. - Remove human error from migration projects
Lower project risks - The automated process greatly lowers project risks by removing human error. As well, converted applications are fully maintainable and flexible, making it simple to modify converted applications when necessary. - Reduce need for retraining by utilizing efficient migration products
Protect current investments - With the Realease product, you have the option to retain the same look and feel of the original application, or you can define a template of how you'd like the new application to look. Realease can convert to either of these formats automatically.
The Features of the Automated Realease Tool
- Realease - Migrates Oracle Forms and PL/SQL to J2EE compliant Java code
The code generated with Realease is fully compliant J2EE code that adheres to the latest Java standards. - Converts Oracle Menus, Triggers, and Libraries (including all PL/SQL code within libraries)
By automating the migration process, Realease removes the risk of human error and produces standardized business applications that are fully maintainable, helping companies stay competitive. - Produces native Java/XML code
Java/XML code is 100% maintainable and completely portable, producing applications that are database independent and, therefore, more manageable and cost-effective. Our main goal at Realease is to provide clean, portable code that can be maintained and enhanced immediately after conversion. The converted code adheres to all of the latest Java standards. - Maintains semantic content and coding standards
Converted code keeps effectively the same structure and standards as its predecessor. Realease also preserves all semantic content, making it simple for developers to maintain and modify converted applications. Form names stay the same so clients can quickly start maintaining the converted application. - Produces multi-tier architecture
A Multi-tier architecture efficiently distributes programming and data throughout a network, allowing a single runtime node to exist on separate physical machines or it may co-exist on the same machine. An advantage to maintaining this type of architecture is the integration of EIS (Enterprise Information Systems), J2EE connector architecture and a well defined contract and API between tiers and system. - Allows database connectivity via JDBC
JDBC offers the scalability, reliability and security of the J2EE framework. JDBC is also extremely portable and allows the client to easily integrate the converted application with other applications. - Integrates IBM architecture
New application development for migrated Forms utilizes Websphere and can include IBM Data Studio, PHP and Perl technologies that work with IBM Data Servers, IBM Data Studio, Ruby on Rails and XML.
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