decompile object form

[BackStageJim]

WHile I have spent time in ORacle, very little has been with Forms 6i. We have fully purchased a vendor product, but they do not include source. Very painful for a programmer. Is it possible to drill into the form to determine the tables/views/procedures/fuctions that are being processed by the form? All I have is the compiled object currently. What can I do to see what is under the covers of the compiled forms. The vendor is NOT fothcomming in any details, and hates to answer any questions.

Thanks in advance

 

[sem]

I suppose that sources are your vendor property. In most cases you may also purchase source files, but the price is order of magnitude higher.
There's no officially supported way to decompile Forms executable, but there's a number of ways to make assumptions about its internals: sql tracing, investigating binaries (table and column names are in plain text unless some advanced techniques like dynamic sql were used).

P.S. This is painfull for a programmer because programmer should have no access to vendor's product

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