Oracle Forms Developer provides a declarative environment for creating and managing event objects.

For known external events, Forms Developer provides a list of available events that can be subscribed to. The property of the event object can be set at runtime or at design time. The ability to end a subscription to a particular external event is also provided through a dynamic setting of the event object property.

Most of the new event functionality is also available through standard Oracle interfaces. Both client and server-side PL/SQL provide all the necessary functionality to create, subscribe, and publish a database event. Oracle Forms provides a declarative and user-friendly way of registering a database event. Oracle Forms provides a standard way of responding to the event by hiding most of the complexity from end-users.