Re: JDBC driver questions

From: <maxim_khusid_at_ccmail.sgo.sony.com>
Date: Fri, 04 Jun 1999 12:22:43 GMT
Message-ID: <7j8ged$bb4$1@nnrp1.deja.com>

You don't have to download both versions of JDBC, it all depends what are your client applications are going to be running on, NT or Solaris. Second, if they are written in Java they *might* use some platform- specific calls. Java was designed to be platform-independent, but it doesn't have to be, and actually to get the maximum speed very often you have to use platform-specific extensions, APIs, etc.

Why Oracle 7 and Oracle 8 JDBC drivers are different? the same reason why native drivers for these databases are different - simply because databases are different. Besides, drivers for Oracle 8i are JDBC 2 compliant, and Oracle 7 are only JDBC 1. Check Sun's website for more information on JDBC

max

In article <7j73q0$7qc$1_at_news1.bu.edu>, tasos_at_csa.bu.edu (Anastasios Kotsikonas) wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> everywhere I look on Oracle's web site there are two JDBC
> drivers, one for Solaris the other for NT.
>
> First of all, if they are written in Java why do we need
> two of them?
>
> Second, 8i Enterprise is available on many more UNIX
> platforms than Solaris. What do we do as far as JDBC
> drivers are concerned for those?
>
> And third, why do we need separate JDBC drivers for
> racle 7?
>
> thanks
>
> tasos
>
>

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