It may encounter performance challenges, particularly when handling extensive graphics. In contrast to cloud-based solutions like Apex, Oracle Forms may lack some advanced visual features. In terms of form recovery and enhancements, there's a need for virtualization. The speed and efficiency of data retrieval should be increased. User interaction and the overall user interface design should be significantly improved in the next critical version to make it more user-friendly and intuitive. Having a built-in SQL prompt or a Windows environment alongside the data connection would be valuable. It would be a significant advancement if there were a platform or functionality within Oracle Forms for reviewing and managing alerts.

The solution should be integrated with Oracle Reports like before. At present, there are areas for improvement in terms of reporting.

It's quite an old product. It may be easier to use if it were a web application.

In the form itself building it, you can set up selected update functions in the properties. There are times where that gets disconnected. Essentially, what it's doing is it's pointing to a package in the database to go do its work. The functionality of that piece, occasionally, doesn't know what it is. The form no longer compiles, and you have to go back and redo those. That's the biggest shortcoming that I've come across.

The solution could improve by having a web-style rendered UI.

We do consulting for companies that are already using it, and we do enhancements if they want to add a report or a form. It needs to stay up with the times a little bit more. Everyone wants to move into web services and applications.

You can customize it way too much and it becomes confusing to control. You have different users who want to customize it for their purposes, so everybody is doing something different. Then you write a code, and somebody else has to maintain it, which presents challenges.

I think the most problematic point is that we still can only use Oracle Forms output as a Java applet. Most users now demand to access these forms in responsive pages or in browsers that allow the application's size to be adjusted automatically as part of the requirements of a user interface. But interfaces developed in Oracle Forms are not a flexible thing because it opens in a Java applet. Oracle Application Express is not like that. They should switch Oracle Forms to have that kind of interface option now.

The GUI needs improvement. 

The solution needs to add recording features that can be included on the fly in the forms.