Oracle Frontend / Backend Protocol

From: Hans-Jürgen Schönig <hs_at_cybertec.at>
Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2004 12:43:19 +0200
Message-ID: <416BB547.9070407@cybertec.at>

I am fairly new to Oracle in general.
One of my customers is asking for a software implementing the Oracle wire-protocol.
The idea is: They have a very old Cobol application which cannot be changed anymore. They want to migrate from Oracle to other databases without changing their Cobol software.
My idea was: To implement an adapter talking "Oracle". This adapter can then transform the Oracle protocol to something else. My question now is: Which wire protocol does Oracle support? Is it realistic to implement something like that in realistic time? Can anybody point me to Oracle specs describing the protocol?

Regards,

Hans Received on Tue Oct 12 2004 - 05:43:19 CDT