1 Introduction

This guide is intended to provide information about deploying applications with Oracle Application Server Forms Services. When you choose to deploy applications to the Internet, there are many decisions to be made as to how you will go about it. This guide provides information about those decisions and offers suggestions and methods for configuring your system for Web deployment of your applications.

This chapter contains the following sections:

• Section 1.1, "The Oracle Internet Platform"

• Section 1.2, "Oracle Application Server Forms Services"

• Section 1.3, "OracleAS Forms Services Architecture"

• Section 1.4, "OracleAS Forms Services Components"

• Section 1.5, "Forms Listener Servlet"