PITSS.CON Summary
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Architecture
Built entirely on Oracle technologies, PITSS.CON is an Oracle Forms application based on the Oracle database – enabling it to support even the largest and most complex applications, such as Oracle E-Business Suite. PITSS.CON is similar in architecture and functionality to the Oracle Forms Generator within Oracle Designer, ensuring continuity throughout the development environment. Using a highly effective interface called the API Layer, PITSS.CON loads and stores all relevant source code for Oracle Forms applications. First, PITSS.CON thoroughly analyzes applications and separates them into the smallest possible components. Then, these highly granular objects and properties are stored in PITSS.CON, enabling sophisticated searches and analysis, and simplifying application maintenance.
Technology Base
The PITSS.CON Technology Base is the foundation for efficient and effective application management. With its clearly structured repository approach, PITSS.CON organizes application information to make Oracle Forms applications significantly easier to understand, control, and develop. It covers the entire life cycle management process, enabling organizations to better meet today’s business challenges. As the fundamental base technology for the PITSS.CON development solution, the PITSS.CON Technology Base delivers a powerful set of core capabilities that drive efficient Oracle Forms application development and maintenance. With a central repository built on proven Oracle database technology, the PITSS.CON Technology Base integrates all Oracle Forms development technologies and application source types to support the entire application life cycle.
Maintenance & Development
PITSS.CON Maintenance & Development revolutionizes Oracle Forms application development and maintenance – shortening development projects, improving application quality, and enabling standardized application code. Specifically designed to simplify and automate upgrading, maintaining, and enhancing Oracle Forms applications, PITSS.CON features “one-click” changes, additions, deletions, and replacement of application components. Using PITSS.CON Maintenance & Development, developers can create customizable templates and predefined projects to supported standardized coding for greater efficiency and shorter development time.
Visual Design
Whether it’s migrating legacy Forms applications to a Windows environment, adapting an application for newer hardware, or making an application more Web-like in appearance, PITSS.CON Visual Design streamlines and automates update of the end user display. PITSS.CON enables developers to easily move to new screen resolutions without any code changes and automatically optimizes the layout. It also allows developers to use pluggable Java components for a Web-like look-and-feel.
Parsing
PITSS.CON Parsing is a special analysis process performed on the entire Oracle Forms application. It first recognizes all object types such as ASCII files, Oracle Forms/Reports/Menu modules, object libraries (OLBs), program libraries (PLLs), SQL statements (including embedded), PL/SQL, and Java syntax and then saves the raw data in the PITSS.CON Repository. With PITSS.CON Parsing, every dependency, relationship, and action is analyzed and described – creating the foundation for the broad analysis and application development functionality within PITSS.CON.
Application Analysis
PITSS.CON Application Analysis delivers in-depth insight into even the most complex Oracle Forms applications. With its 360° view of the entire application, PITSS.CON Application Analysis lets you quickly and precisely analyze the impact of proposed changes, identify obsolete or problematic code, and streamline the transition to a service-oriented architecture. With PITSS.CON Application Analysis, organizations can take the guesswork and risk out of application maintenance. At the same time, PITSS.CON ensures application investments are protected by enabling any developer to quickly understand and use existing business logic and code – regardless of who created the original application. With granularity down to the property level, PITSS.CON Application Analysis enables powerful what-if simulations, highly sophisticated research and analysis, and comprehensive reporting to improve application maintenance.
Application Engineering
PITSS.CON Application Engineering (Forms SOA Suite) brings the business and technical advantages of a service-oriented architecture (SOA) to Oracle Forms applications. Ensuring complete investment protection, PITSS.CON enables organizations to easily and efficiently migrate Oracle Forms applications to SOA. With wizard-based tools and automatic generation of Web services, PITSS.CON makes Oracle Forms code, business logic, and data access layers SOA-compliant. Developers can automatically generate database packages and deploy them as Web services to any Java development framework such as Oracle JDeveloper and BPEL Process Manager. As part of a complete, end-to-end application lifecycle product suite for Oracle Forms, PITSS.CON Application Engineering enables you to transition your Oracle Forms applications to an SOA environment in the most effective, efficient way. It ensures complete investment protection as you migrate, even allowing Oracle Forms applications to coexist with new Java applications.
Migration
PITSS.CON Migration is an extremely powerful platform for upgrading and migrating entire Oracle Forms applications to new software versions or operating environments. By fully automating the migration effort, PITSS.CON Migration helps organizations save up to 90% on the time and cost of migration and upgrade projects. The built-in expert system automatically revises code affected by obsolete or changed Oracle Forms functionality, with support going back to Oracle Forms v2.3. As part of an end-to-end product suite designed to improve the entire Oracle Forms application lifecycle, PITSS.CON Migration enables organizations to easily take advantage of features and functionality available in newer software releases and operating environments.
Multi-Language
PITSS.CON Multi-Language is the ideal foundation for internationalization of Oracle Forms applications. With PITSS.CON, you can dramatically reduce maintenance efforts, speed timeto-market, and ensure complete transparency to the end user for multi-language applications. Enabling one single source for all target languages, PITSS.CON Multi-Language automatically generates the complete infrastructure necessary to support multiple languages. New languages can be rapidly added, with no impact on languages already in use. Translations can be performed interactively, imported from external translators, or generated dynamically using commercial translation Web services.
Source Control
PITSS.CON Source Control is an extremely powerful and fully integrated source control system (SCS) designed specifically for Oracle Forms applications. Serving as a central manager for all types of files and data, PITSS.CON Source Control organizes, controls, and streamlines maintenance and development. With its comprehensive version and change management functionality, PITSS.CON Source Control enables large development teams to function more efficiently, ensures full control over the change process, and enables better collaboration. PITSS.CON Source Control manages both Oracle and non-Oracle file types and includes the features you need for complete visibility and control, such as check-in/check-out, application freeze, as well as copy, branch, and merge. Particularly relevant for large development teams, PITSS.CON Source Control and the PITSS.CON Repository allow each team member to access and modify only those modules allowed in the security definitions.