Oracle Forms and Reports - 1.0

Extension ID

com.castsoftware.formsreport

What’s new?

See Release Notes.

Description

This extension provides support for the analysis of Oracle Forms and Reports applications, specifically for CAST Imaging v3.

Compatibility

Function Point, Quality and Sizing support

• Function Points (transactions): a green tick indicates that OMG Function Point counting and Transaction Risk Index are supported
• Quality and Sizing: a green tick indicates that CAST can measure size and that a minimum set of Quality Rules exist

What about the legacy Oracle Forms and Reports analyzer?

The com.castsoftware.formsreport extension is specific to CAST Imaging v3 and does not function with v2/8.3.x. The extension should not be considered as an exact replacement for the Oracle Forms and Reports analyzer embedded in AIP Core 8.3.x and you should note that there is no supported migration path between the two.

The support for Oracle Forms and Reports provided by the com.castsoftware.formsreport extension is similar to the supported provided by the analyzer embedded in AIP Core 8.3.x, however it is not identical. If you would like to know more about the differences, please see Comparison with legacy Oracle Forms and Reports analyzer provided with 8.3.x.

Technical information

Supported releases of Oracle Forms and Reports

If you can succesfully convert your Oracle Forms and Reports files to the list of supported and accepted files (see section below), then the extension will be able to analyze them.

Supported files for analysis

This extension supports the following files for analysis:

• .rex files for .rdf files
• .xml files for .fmb, .mmb, .rdf and .olb files.
• .pld files for .pll files

In otherwords, you will need to convert your Forms/Reports files before you can deliver them for analyis. This conversion process is described in the table below:

Source code discovery

The extension will “discover” one project (and create one “Analysis Unit”) if at least one of the following files is delivered for analysis:

• .rex
• .xml
• .pld

And when when at least one of the files contains content that matches the following regular expression:

MenuModule|FormModule|ObjectLibrary|report

What results can you expect?

Objects

Icon	Object Type	Description
	Oracle Forms Module	Object created from a FormModule tag.
	Oracle Forms Function	Object created with FUNCTION statements from a ProgramUnit in a xml file, DEFINE TOOL_PLSQL tag in a rex file or function tag in a Oracle Reports xml file. The same type cover Package’s function.
	Oracle Forms Procedure	Object created with PROCEDURE statements from a ProgramUnit in a xml file, DEFINE TOOL_PLSQL tag in a rex file or function tag in a Oracle Reports xml file. The same type cover Package’s procedure.
	Oracle Forms Package	Object created with PACKAGE statement from a ProgramUnit in a xml file, DEFINE TOOL_PLSQL tag in a rex file or function tag in a Oracle Reports xml file.
	Oracle Forms Trigger	Object created from a ProgramUnit, Trigger, DEFINE TOOL_PLSQL or a function tag.
	Oracle Forms Window	Object created from a Window, Alert or a LOV tag.
	Oracle Forms DataBlock	Object created from a Block tag.
	Oracle Forms DataBlock Item	Object created from an Item tag.
	Oracle Forms Object Library	Object created from an ObjectLibrary tag.
	Oracle Forms PL/SQL Library	Object created for a pld file.
	Oracle Forms Menu Module	Object created from a MenuModule tag.
	Oracle Forms Menu	Object created from a Menu tag.
	Oracle Forms Menu Item	Object created from a MenuItem tag.
	Oracle Report	Object created for a rex/xml file.
	Oracle Report SQL Query	Object created from a DEFINE SRW2_QUERY tag from a rzx file or a dataSource tag from a xml file.

Links

Structural rules

The following rules are provided in the extension:

• 1.0.0-alpha1 

Log messages

FORMSREPORT-001