Debugging Oracle Forms Application server(9i and 10g)

There is a very good Oracle documentation on manually configuring  Oracle form trace and debugging available at Oracle site at Tips, Techniques and Debugging of Oracle forms Application server.

This link talks about the debugging and tracing options available in Oracle 9iAS but most of the things are applicable to Oracle 10gAS as well.

Documents available at this link mainly talk about Diagnostics methods

1)Enabling Form trace:-Topics like how to configure form trace,start  the trace and also how to convert trace file to readable XML files

2)Servlet logs:-

• It provides a record of all Oracle9i Forms sessions, including session start and endtimes, and the user’s IP address and host name 
•  Monitoring of Oracle9i Forms-related network traffic and performance 
• It also gives Information for debugging site configuration problems (debug-level
  logging)
   

3)Debugging Client and Server crash  and also discussess about Common forms(FRM errors) and how to solve them.

 4)There is also a Sample Application which you can use to learn some functions in forms and as well as debug it.The code for the Sample Application is available at
http://sheikyerbouti.developpez.com/tutoforms10g/files/tutoforms10g.zip

In case you are not able to find the Debugging documentation or the link expires then do a google search for the following pdf files

1)tutoforms10g.pdf
2)trace9i-133379.pdf
3)forms9idiagnostics-129282.pdf

If you have any questions do mention in the Comments section

Happy Debugging