Re: How to run a program created by C from form

You got at least these possibilities:

1. Write your C function as a Forms user exit
2. Write your function, place it in a DLL/shared library and use the ORA_FFI package to access it
3. You may write you function as a server process and communicate via pipes.
4. and 2) are pretty standard solutions.
5. is more efficient than 2) in terms of execution time
6. allows any client or server process to access your function
7. is IMHO to complex if it is just a question of this one function.

Many more pro/cons exists, but go for 2) if you want a solution that should bear well into the future.

Are you sure you cannot implement your function using PL/SQL iso. C?

Cheers,
Johan
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Norhamizan Arifin skrev i meddelelsen <376DF0CD.AE0B943_at_mimos.my>...
>
>Does anybody knows how to run/execute a program created by C which
>receive 1 input and return 1 output(value).
>This program is to encrypt a word(input) and return the encrypted word
>and is programed in C.
>
>I have tried DBMS Pipe but I don't really know how to use it. PLease
>help.
>
>Thanks in advance.
>
>../Mizan
Received on Wed Jun 23 1999 - 05:22:10 CDT