Re: Can JDBC 2.0 driver for oracle work in ORACL 8.1.5

Q. When will Oracle support JDBC 2.0? And when will Oracle support JDK 1.2?

Answer

Oracle 8.1.5 provides JDK 1.1.x drivers, and does not support JDK 1.2. Oracle 8.1.5 currently provides a subset of JDBC 2.0 features. The support we provide covers structured types in JDBC 2.0; it does not include JTA or XA.

Oracle 8.1.6SDK provides a JDK 1.2 version of the Thin Driver only. It can also be downloaded from http://technet.oracle.com/software/utilities.htm There is no 8.1.6SDK JDBC OCI driver except on Solaris - this will be available with 8.1.6.

Note that the JDK 1.2 version of the Thin Driver shipped with Oracle 8.1.6SDK has exactly the same JDBC 1.22 functionality as the 8.1.5 version. It does not provide any additional JDBC 2.0 capabilities. The only difference is that it compiles, runs, and has been tested under JDK 1.2.

Oracle 8.1.6 will supply JDBC drivers for Java1.1.x and for Java2 (also known as 1.2). Oracle 1.1.x drivers will not support JDBC2.0 or JTA or XA. 1.2 Oracle drivers will be fully JDK 1.2 compliant and will contain a large subset of JDBC 2.0 features:

    Core JDBC:

       Beta support for scrollable cursors
       Support for structured types and lob types
       Batching support compliant with the JDBC 2.0 API

    JDBC 2.0 Extensions:

       Connection Pooling
       JDBC-XA and JTA API support (except recover).

Reference

JDBC Driver Compatibility on:

   http://technet.oracle.com//tech/java/info/jdbc_dri.htm

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Krishna Chaganti <chaganti_at_erols.com> wrote in message news:38356F39.ADED2B78_at_erols.com...
> Does JDBC2.0 complient driver for oracle work with ORACL 8.1.5 , should
> i have ORACLE 8.1.6
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Regards
> Krishna
>
>
Received on Sun Nov 21 1999 - 08:36:52 CST