What is the best technology to migrate Oracle Forms and Reports to [closed]

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  1. ADF
  2. APEX
  3. Yor suggestion .

Which one do you think is the best in terms of business continuity and also ease of technological transition? Do you have experience in such migrations?

At the end, I would like to know if it would be necessary to migrate or just keep "Oracle Forms/Reports"

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Regardless of what tool vendors might say, this is going to be an exercise in rewriting your application.

So the real questions is, why do you want to do this? Oracle are continuing to support Forms for some time yet. There are plenty of things we can do to modernize our Forms applications whilst retaining our investment in the existing software. I urge you to look at Mia Urman's presentation Give Your Forms a Facelift: Tips and Tricks for Forms UI Modernization which she gave at a UKOUG event I helped organise a couple of years ago.

If your mind is absolutely set on a re-write you'll find APEX is the easiest path for developers with a Forms/ PL/SQL background.

Update for 2018:

Oracle have been getting back behind Forms. The 12c release had over 100 new features. Okay, some are quite minor but it's a clear statement of intent. Find out more.