Oracle Developer Suite 9i and Oracle Developer Suite 10g provide Forms2XML tool to convert form modules, object libraries and menu modules to XML files. Forms2XML tool supports earlier versions of Oracle Forms, but if it cannot convert some files from an earlier version of Oracle Forms, upgrade these files to Oracle Developer Suite 9i or 10g and then convert to XML.

Any one tell me how to convert oracle fmb/fmx to text file. Tajweed Made Easy on this page. Reards, Manoj Mathew. Can we simply convert all fmb files to XML and stop using binary files. In other words, for Forms components we don't need the FMX files, but the FMB source files. These are a few ground rules we have to take into account: We need to make sure that there's no more development on the components we are about to use in our Conversion project. This is because we are now going to freeze our.

Forms2XML generates XML files that have the same name as the converted Forms files and adds postfix _fmb, _old or _mmb for Forms Modules, Object Library or Menu Module, respectively. Forms2XML tool located in the BIN directory of Oracle Developer Suite 9i/10g.

If you have previously installed the Oracle 9i/10g database, and then installed Developer Suite to the same location, you can find Forms2XML tool in the database BIN directory (for example, D: ora92 bin) Forms2XML is a Java program, and there is iff2xml90.bat file to run the conversion from command line. There can be also frmf2xml batch file supplied with Oracle Application Express (APEX). For example, to convert a menu module module3.mmb, run iff2xml90.bat module3.mmb As a result of the conversion, tool produces module3_mmb.xml file You can also invoke the conversion from command line using Java as follows: java oracle.forms.util.xmltools.Forms2XML module3.mmb but you have to properly set up CLASSPATH (see iff2xml90.bat how to do this). Additionally, you can write your own Java program and use Forms2XML class to do the conversion.