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Words cannot express how much I hate Oracle’s “Forms Designer”. If you’re not familiar with it, it’s this steaming pile of shit my school decided to use for the exercise sessions of my 4GL course. It loosely resembles Microsoft Access forms, except that it presents them in a Web environment, using an extension of applets—for which you need to install a separate application first—and servlets. Really now. The UI’s even less intuitive than Access’s; it doesn’t distinguish between frontend and backend at all; it’s pretty much impossible to keep track of program flow; don’t try to get it to produce a portable or even decent layout—it can’t. And even if it was a decent product, how on Earth is using a proprietary drag-and-drop wizardry thingamajig that rarely involves writing PL/SQL yourself going to teach you anything about databases?! “BBME Greatest Hits”, coming to a theater near you soon. For fuck’s sake.