Oracle Forms Migration

Migrate Oracle Forms
and eliminate $800K/year in licensing

8,000+ enterprises run Oracle Forms in production. Average TCO: $800K/year. DEX migrates the entire system to modern TypeScript in 1-3 months — 100% business logic preserved, zero vendor lock-in.

$800KAnnual TCO
2-4 yrsManual rewrite
60%Projects fail
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The Process

20-100x faster than manual development.
More accurate because it's governed.

Every step uses the same engine: AI that works inside a structured framework, not a blank canvas. The output is auditable, testable, and yours to own.

01

AI documents your entire codebase

The engine parses every source file — .fmb forms, PL/SQL packages, triggers, LOVs, canvas layouts — and produces a structured inventory. Every block, every business rule, every dependency chain is catalogued before any transformation begins.

  • Full source file parsing with dependency mapping
  • Business rule extraction into structured JSON descriptors
  • Complexity scoring per module (triggers, LOC, integrations)
  • Automated documentation generation
Code Analysis
📄ORDERS.fmb✓ 47 triggers
📄INVENTORY.fmb✓ 23 triggers
📄CUSTOMERS.fmb⟳ scanning...
📄INVOICES.fmbqueued
📄REPORTS.fmbqueued
184screens
9,412triggers
142Klines of code
02

Review the business logic — add improvements

Every extracted rule is presented in a structured review interface. Your team walks through each module, confirms the logic, flags scope changes, and adds improvements — before any code is generated. This is where you fix 20 years of undocumented behavior.

  • Visual business rule inspector — no code reading required
  • Side-by-side: legacy logic vs proposed modern equivalent
  • Flag rules for removal, modification, or enhancement
  • Add new requirements directly into the migration scope
Business Logic Review
Keep

Order amount must be positive

WHEN-VALIDATE-ITEM → ORDERS.AMOUNT
Improve

Orders > $50K require approval — add email notification

WHEN-VALIDATE-ITEM → ORDERS.AMOUNT
Remove

Legacy fax notification on order creation

POST-INSERT → ORDERS
New

Real-time inventory check before order confirmation

Added during review
47 / 312 rules reviewed
03

AI generates the modern application

The governed AI engine transforms every reviewed rule into production TypeScript code — REST APIs, JSON descriptor screens, and typed validators. Not free-form generation: every output follows the framework's constrained patterns. Deterministic, auditable, compliant by default.

  • PL/SQL → TypeScript with semantic equivalence
  • Screens → JSON descriptors rendered by the governed runtime
  • Database access → REST API layer with parameterized queries
  • 5-10x fewer AI tokens than free-form generators
Code Generation
Legacy PL/SQL 
IF :ORDERS.AMOUNT <= 0
  RAISE_APPLICATION_ERROR
    (-20001, 'Not positive');
END IF;
→
TypeScript 
if (order.amount <= 0) {
  return {
    ok: false,
    code: 'AMOUNT_NOT_POSITIVE'
  };
}
04

Automated testing and live preview

Every generated screen has unit tests derived from the original business rules. A live preview lets your team inspect each screen's layout, logic, and data flow before deployment.

  • Unit tests auto-generated from every business rule
  • Visual regression testing against legacy screenshots
  • Live preview with JSON descriptor inspector
  • Side-by-side: legacy screen vs modern screen
Test & Preview
✓validateOrderAmount2ms
✓validateApproverRequired1ms
✓validateCustomerActive3ms
✓calculateTaxByRegion1ms
✓inventoryCheckBeforeConfirm4ms
312 / 312 passing Coverage: 100%
05

Keep building with the AI builder

Migration is day one. The same engine that migrated your legacy system becomes your tool for building new features, screens, and integrations. A DEX Architect uses the governed AI builder to ship 5-15 new screens per month, each one auditable and compliant by default.

  • Same framework, same JSON descriptors, same governance
  • Natural language → production screen in 2-4 hours
  • Add integrations (ERP, CRM, APIs) without rebuilding
  • Every new feature is immediately testable and auditable
AI Builder
Add a dashboard showing monthly revenue by region with a drill-down to individual orders
Generated: Revenue Dashboard with 3 KPI cards, a bar chart grouped by region, and a click-through to the Orders table filtered by region. JSON descriptor created. Preview ready.
$2.4MRevenue
284Orders
12Regions
EU
NA
APAC
LATAM

Why 20-100x faster?

Manual development regenerates architecture decisions on every feature. The DEX engine generates against a fixed framework with reusable patterns. The AI doesn't think about folder structure, auth, logging, or deployment — it's all built in.

2-5 days

Manual development per screen

2-4 hours

DEX AI builder per screen

2-4 years

Manual full migration

1-3 months

DEX full migration

More accurate because every rule has a unit test. More auditable because every screen has a JSON descriptor. More maintainable because the output is standard TypeScript.

Ready to see the process on your Oracle Forms system?

Send us 3-5 .fmb files. We'll run the analysis, show you the business rules we extracted, and deliver a scoped migration plan within 5 business days.

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