How is TransForm Licensed?
TransForm is licensed on a per form basis. Retail price at $100 per form. Starter packs are available to help get your feet wet, get to learn the toolkit and assess its capabilities. Add-on licenses can be procured thereafter.
How is TransRep Licensed?
- TransRep is licensed on a per report basis.
- While the Retail price at $50 per report, Currently Release3 is promoting TransRep for free
What are Starter Packs?
Starter Packs are conveniently packaged in 2 versions
- SP10: Starter Pack with 10 Licenses for migrations, comes with a 1/2 day online training and assistance is priced at $1000.00
- SP30: Starter Pack with 30 Licenses for migrations, comes standard with 1 full day online training and assistance is priced at $2,500.00
- Starter Packs can be ordered by contacting Release3 at sales@release3.com.
How can I get TransForm Starter Packs?
Starter Packs can be bought by contacting Release3 at sales@release3.com.
How are TransForm licenses generated or obtained?
Once you have downloaded and installed the toolkit, users can generate a definition file based on Forms being considered. The users send this definition file to Release3 at sales@release3.com, against which the licenses are generated and sent back to the user. This license file are needed for migrating those specific forms.
How are TransRep licenses generated or obtained?
Once you have downloaded and installed the toolkit, users can generate a definition file based on Reports being considered. The users send this definition file to Release3 at sales@release3.com, against which the licenses are generated and sent back to the user. This license file are needed for migrating those specific Reports.
How can I get Starter Packs for TransRep?
Since TransRep is promoted for free for the current moment, There are no Starter Packs for TransRep at the moment. The $0 cost licenses can be obtained by contacting Release3 at sales@release3.com.
What is the Migration Process with TransForm?
TransForm follows a simple process for Migrating your Oracle Forms based applications to Open Source Java.
TransForm allows users to perform migration in 3 simple yet distinct steps:
1) Pre-Migration which involves – Clean-up (removal and replacement of OLB references and dependencies), and generate license files
2) Migration of Forms Application to Java, and perform customization using a easy GUI based helper
3) Post-Migration where users move automated generated PL/SQL packages to the database, apply CSS and preferences, menu etc, compile and deploy their application in Java.
What are the technologies involved in the migration of Forms to Java using TransForm ?
TransForm migrates to an MVC architecture, a standards based design pattern. The technologies involved are EJB3, Toplink essentials, Java 5, JSF and IceFaces AJAX.
What application server is the generated Java application deployed onto?
The generated application can be deployed to any Apache based enterprise Java web Application Server including jBOSS. The same application can be ported to BEA Weblogic, IBM Websphere.
What IDE can I use for the generated code?
While we use jBossDeveloperStudio as default, any Eclipse based IDE can be used.
Are there any dependencies or proprietary code after generating code with TransForm?
There are no dependencies or proprietary code in the generated application. Release3 has developed powerful components that include functions similar to Oracle Forms such as Grids, LOVs, Master Detail. These components and the library source codes are available to any customer if they wish to modify the same for their use.
Are there any special skills required to migrate with TransForm?
There are no special skills required to perform a migration. Remember, TransForm has been built keeping in mind Oracle Forms developers and their existing knowledge base. Forms developers can easily perform migrations using TransForm. Java resources and functional people who are application experts should be available as a part of the migration team.
What is the Migration Process with TransRep?
TransRep follows a simple process for Migrating your Oracle Reports based applications to Open Source BIRT.
TransRep allows users to perform migration in simple steps:
1) Migration of Reports to BIRT, and perform layout adjustments using a easy GUI based helper provided in BIRT plug-in within Eclipse
2) Post-Migration where users will need to address parameters, finalize layout, apply formats, logos, make calls from Forms to the Reports as it was with Oracle Forms application etc. and then deploy the reports to the application server. .
What are the technologies involved in the migration of Report to BIRT using TransRep?
TransRep migrates to a BIRT workspace. BIRT reportng tool from within Eclipse or myEclipse is used there after to modify, run and maintain the reports thereafter.
What application server is the generated Java application deployed onto?
The generated application can be deployed to any Apache based enterprise Java web Application Server including jBOSS. The same application can be ported to BEA Weblogic, IBM Websphere.
What IDE can I use for the generated code?
Eclipse or my Eclipse IDE can be used for BIRT reporting tools.
Are there any dependencies or proprietary code after generating code with TransRep?
There are no dependencies or proprietary code in the generated application. TransRep provides a migration mechanism where the existing reports layout, datasets, queries are migrated to a format needed by BIRT to build and run the report.
Are there any special skills required to migrate with TransRep?
There are no special skills required to perform a migration with TransRep. Remember, TransForm has been built keeping in mind Oracle Reports developers and their existing knowledge base. Reports developers can easily perform migrations using TransRep. Users should get trained on BIRT though. Trainings are available from within Eclipse or on BIRT resource sites. Links are available on TransRep Information Technical pages wihtin release3 website.
Are TransForm/TransRep products or services?
The TransForm Forms to Java Migration toolkit and the TransRep Reports Migration toolkit are products that are geared towards customers buying the product and being able to perform migration themselves. You can also contract a Release3 Solution Partner to perform the migration. Though migration with TransForm/TransRep achieve high levels of automation, manual handling of PL/SQL packages are inevitable due to the varied nature of Forms development practices. Conservatively TransForm/TransRep provide more than 75-80% automated migration. Manual tasks may include post-migration PL/SQL package handling, mapping in the helper using the GUI interface, handling event based logic in Java, applying CSS and Menu.
Does Release3 provide project augmentation?
Release3 provides Proof-of-Concept help free for customers looking to see if the toolkits are a fit for them. Release3 has also established a Migration centre for customers looking for project augmentation in certain cases. Migration services can be obtained from Release3′s solution partners who are trained on the toolkit and may be local to your region.
How are TransForm and TransRep toolkits different from the other toolkits available in the market?
TransForm and TransRep are significantly different from other migration tools currently available in the market. The Basic differences include:
- Product business model vs. Service or Semi-based business model.
- TransForm moves logic to the Database as Packages. TransRep preserves query logic exactly as it was in the Reports
- Migrate Forms & Reports to Open Source Java (we do not migrate to ADF)
- Designed for use by Forms & Reports Developers
- Migrated Forms & Reports are deployed on any Java Web application server or can use any Java IDE
- Price Advantages.
How can Release3's products help me save money? How much can I typically save over re-writing manually?
- Release3 toolkits provide savings of 70% or more over manual migration methods. With TransForm5, the savings will be even more
- The toolkits achieve a high level of automation, and the tasks are repetitive which allows users to attain high speeds once the knowledge is gained.
- The toolkits help cut down migration time significantly.
- Contact Release3 for an ROI for your unique scenario to quantify the savings for your application.
My needs are very specific, How can Release3 help me with my scenario?
TransForm and TransRep are template based and modular in design, and thus easily and quickly customizable. If there is a situation to address specific needs, Release3 can quickly customize the toolkit to fit most scenarios.