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Jacob Madsen from Brandsoft in Denmark has written a community white paper on how his company has integrated MapViewer with Oracle Forms. Having seen a demo from Jacob, its pretty amazing stuff. Highlighing a region on a map queries data into you Forms block from that map area.

You can get a copy of the paper here.

With Oracle Forms we are moving towards certification with the Sun plug-in. We already certify 1.4, 1.5 and 1.6 with various versions of Oracle Forms. If you want to know how to set up Oracle Forms to run with the Java Plug-in then you can read this article.

At the moment there seem to be a few glitches in ORDIMAGE support with JDeveloper 11 and some traffic on the forum. Just as a hint here's a snippet using af:media to display a image stored in an OrdImage attribute. note that I've had to expand the servlet reference out (that's the W/A for the current bug. Also if you've used this in 10.1.3, note that the expression for the Mime type is slightly different (excuse the wrapping in the source value):

<af:media source="/ordDeliverMedia?appModID=TuhraServiceDataControl&
                viewObjectName=TuhraService.AllImages1&
                contentCol=Image&
                rowKey=#{bindings.AllImages1Iterator.currentRowKeyString}"
           player="windows"
           autostart="true"
           contentType="#{bindings.Image.inputValue.mimeType}"/>


I've been seeing this question come up more and more given recent events. Jan Carlin as posted a response to this.
The bottom line is that one element of the Oracle Application Server in release 11 (OC4J) will now be WLS. This affects Forms in a minimal way since Forms is a C process and only uses the Java container for serving up HTML and for comms management. So, Forms 11g, the next version, will run on a server which uses WLS. It doesn't mean your Forms 9i applications can now be run on some existing WebLogic versions.

Hope that addresses the questions for people.

I just uploaded the latest version of Oracle's Java plugin Jinitiator to OTN. It incorporates Sun's latest JDK 1.3 version (1.3.1_21).
I would not be surprised if this would turn out to be the last drop we'll get from Sun. If you haven't migrated your Forms application to Sun's plug-in yet, you should start doing so I think.
In version 11 of Forms we will only support Sun's plug-in. We will continue to support JInitiator for 10.1.2 but if this turns out to be the last drop from Sun it is definitely worth it to look at their plug-in now because any security fixes from Sun will come in their plug-in rather than ours, going forward.
For instructions on how to use Sun's Java plug-in with Oracle Forms, have a look at this brand new whitepaper.