Re: Oracle Client files for Linux
Date: 21 Jun 2001 00:49:31 GMT
Message-ID: <9grgar$t47_at_dispatch.concentric.net>
> > A) Is there any way to connect to a server without the client software?
> No
Yes, of course there is. A great example is the Oracle Java thin client JDBC driver. It does not need the Oracle client because it has its own sockets and talks over the network to the server's listener directly.
This functionality is not particular to Java, though. I use Delphi a lot and I use an excellent library that has the ability to bypass the Oracle client interface (OCI) and use the same mechanism as the Java thin client. The library is called ODAC and now they have a version out for Kylix (the so-called "Delphi for Linux") that runs under Linux.
Anyway, it would not surprise me if there are more products like this. You can have a look at the ODAC library at http://crlab.com/odac.html Received on Thu Jun 21 2001 - 02:49:31 CEST