Installing Oracle Forms builder & Services 11G in windows

Perform the below steps to install Oracle Forms 11g and forms services on Windows.

- Download Oracle Weblogic server (Navigation: otn.oracle.com > downloads > Middleware: Weblogic server )

- Download Oracle Forms, Reports and Discoverer (Navigation: otn.oracle.com > Downloads > Middleware: Oracle Fusion Middleware 11gR1)

- Extract the two files Disk1_1of2 and ..disk1_2of2 and it creates disk directories (disk1, disk2, disk3 and disk4).

- Double click the setup.exe in the root of the disk1 folder.

- Click install and configure.

- The installer checks for System pre-requisites.

- Choose the Oracle Middleware location. This is where I installed the middleware home of Jdeveloper 11g

- Select Oracle Forms and Reports including the correct server components. And after accepting the defaults in the following steps choose [Finish] and the installation starts.

- The installer installs a one- off patch and then starts the configuration.

- Add TNS entry for the instance in tnsnames.ora under ([HOME_DRIVE]:\Oracle\Middleware\asinst_1)

- The forms builder can be accessed from the following menu (Start > Programs > Oracle classic instance > Developer tools > Forms Builder.)