Ndapi

Oracle Forms includes an API that enables C/C++ developers to create, load, edit, save, and compile Oracle Forms modules (.fmb, .mmb, .olb and .pll files). It gives access to almost all the Forms Builder functionality.

Oracle Forms also includes a Java API (JDAPI) that wraps the Open API functionality and offers a complete API to Java developers. But the API is a bit verbose because it doesn't have any support for generics nor iterators.

A Java sample code with JDAPI looks like:

FormModule module = FormModule.open(sourceFileName);
JdapiIterator programUnits = module.getProgramUnits();
while (programUnits.hasNext()) {
    ProgramUnit programUnit = (ProgramUnit)programUnits.next();
    String name = programUnit.getName();
    // ...
}

The objective of this project is to implement a fully featured .NET wrapper for Oracle Forms Open API, providing a more idiomatic API for .NET developers.

So, the same code with Ndapi would be:

var module = FormModule.Open(sourceFileName);
foreach (var programUnit in module.ProgramUnits)
{
    var name = programUnit.Name;
    // ...
}

Supported Oracle Forms versions

Currently this projects is tested with Forms 6.0.8.22.1 (32-bit) and Forms 12.2.1.3, 12.2.1.4 and 12.2.1.19 (64-bit).

Installing

Official releases can be obtained using the NuGet package.

To integrate with Forms 6i your application must target the platform x86. To integrate with Forms 12c your application must target the platform x64.

To get the development builds use https://github.com/felipebz/ndapi/pkgs/nuget/Ndapi.