Re: Java applet and OWS

[Quoted] You need to buy a jdbc driver to do this. One that glues to Oracle.

Weblogic makes jdbcKona/Oracle which is a native driver (ie its written in C and uses the OCI)... they also make a product called jdbcKona/T3 (requries weblogic T3Server) which is middleware... the driver is 100% java, hence it is acceptable for applets. See http://www.weblogic.com for more info.

Connect Software makes a 100% java jdbc driver which talks native oracle protocol direct to the db server. Hence, no need for middleware. Which means that the applet and the jdbc driver can be loaded from the webserver. No need to install stuff on the client machines. (THough, applets can only talk to the webserver where they were loaded from, hence it seems that the oracle server needs to be running on the same machine as the web server, which could be untenable in an Internet scenario. Intranet is probably ok.) See http://www.connectsw.com for more info. FastForward is their product.

I'm somewhat new to this oracle stuff... I've been researching, and will be venturing into weblogic/jdbc/oracle.

jeff

Christopher Yearsley (Chris_at_pandion.u-net.com) wrote:
: I've been having problems understanding this, too. I've been reading the
: Webserver 3 docs, and can find loads of information about server-side Java, but
: nothing about connecting applets to a database. I had assumed that WS3 would
: provide JDBC connectivity, but I can't find any reference to JDBC either in WS3,
: or on Oracle's WWW site.
 

: Probably I'm missing something really obvious here, but...
 

: How can an applet in a browser use Oracle Webserver 3 to access database
: information? It looks like third-party drivers are needed, which seems too crazy
: to be true.

: On Thu, 13 Mar 1997 13:00:56 +0100, Oracle-Owner <oracle_at_odin.fli.sh.bosch.de>
: wrote:
 

: >> WebServer 2 provides packages called oracle.rdbms and oracle.plsql which
: >> make possible the communication between Java applets and Oracle server.
: >> You don't even need JDBC. PL/SQL packages are *wrapped* into a java
: >> class so that you can call them directly from java.
 

: >I think, you made a mistake here. Those classes are only available from
: >a standalone java program, that gets executed ON THE SERVER by the
: >Oracle Webserver 2.X Java Cartridge. You can't use those classes from an
: >applet.
 

: --
: Chris Yearsley
: Chris_at_pandion.u-net.com
Received on Mon Mar 17 1997 - 00:00:00 CET