Mark is correct. One thing to note though is that the thin client is about
10% less performant than the "thick" drivers.
Jim
"Mark Wagoner" <mwagoner_at_iac.net> wrote in message
news:ajjn3f$2f93$1_at_genma.iac.net...
> > From what I could tell from the GUI setup tool they showed me, it's
using
> a JDBC
> > connection. I have zero experience with JDBC.
> >
> > Anyone have any experience with the Vitria product? Can anyone explain
> what
> > they think might be going on that it needs IP and listener port? Is
there
> some
> > way of bypassing the client side SQLNET software?
>
> I have never heard of Vitria (but that doesn't mean much ;o)) but it
sounds
> like they are using the thin JDBC driver. This driver does not require an
> Oracle client installation. All of the functionality normally handled by
> the OCI dlls/libraries is coded in Java within the JDBC driver.
>
> When connecting to a database using the thin driver, you essentially pass
> the entire tnsnames entry (IP address, port, SID/service name, etc.) to
the
> driver along with the username and password. This would explain why they
> wanted this information, although I think you are correct in being leery
> about just giving it out.
>
>
Received on Fri Aug 16 2002 - 18:00:43 CDT
