Re: Enterprise with Oracle7: Who does what and how?

Dear Gary,

  You may be interested in the VelociGen for Perl/TCL. These are server side NSAPI plugins that let you do your programming and access your database through perl or tcl. Oracle is supported via the normal perl / tcl extentions. The url is:

        http://www.binevolve.com/

Best,

        Tony

> I'm trying to quickly get my head around this Liveconnect thing and seem
> to be running in circles trying to get straight answers ... so who better
> to ask than the experts ;) ...
>
> I have a Netscape Enterprise Server with Oracle7 (both on Solaris) ... and
> that is all I have. I want to create fairly complex web pages out of a
> database of text and images, ie, a query must come back with all the
 matching
> elements arranged nicely on a single screen.
>
> 1) is it better to have the data server generate the HTML output using
> stored procedures? Are there tools available for designing these
> procedures? Do I need Developer/2000 for this and if so, can I use this
> with the Enterprise server, or do I also then need to buy Webserver3?
>
> 2) should the images be in the database or on the file-system?
>
> 3) I'm worried about large server-side Javascript being prone to
> transmission-error problems (true, client-side JS has to deal with
> the precarious internet connection, but aren't there similar problems
> with large JS scripts on the server?) Would it be better to talk to
> the Oracle server through JDBC? (more portable, but then, NS does not
> officially support JDBC!)
>
> I'm curious to know how others are approaching this problem, but can't
> find any definitive resources on the web (Are there any non-partisan
> NS/E+Oracle resources on the Internet?). In the interest of future
> programmers who will follow us, what better place to leave your wisdom
> than in the USENET archives ;)

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