Re: Porting C++ App to Oracle

On 3 Sep 2004 10:40:06 -0700, james_pannozzi_at_cisgi.com (Questioner) wrote:

>I am considering porting a C++ application
>to Oracle. The C++ application, written
>with MFC under Visual Studio 6.0,
>calls 7 or 8 different vendor supplied 32 bit DLL's.
>Some DLL's are written in VB and require
>SafeArrays to exchange data, others use VB collections,
>still are straight 32 bit DLL's built with C++.
>
>My question is, is there documentation/information
>on doing this from Oracle? Is there a built in
>Oracle design language that can do it?
>
>Does the Oracle development environment have
>something like the Visual Studio C++ #import directive
>which can analyze the target DLL, recognize the
>function names and parameters and generate
>interface functions?
>
>Thanks
>Jim

Oracle has
OCI : Oracle Call Interface. The lowest level there is Pro*C: a Host Language Interface: embed your statements in ordinary C(++)
and Oracle has OleDB, a Vb/DAO like interface, which can be used in VB and MFC.

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Sybrand Bakker, Senior Oracle DBA