Re: PLEX -- Has anyone used it?
Date: 1997/11/11
Message-ID: <346c7a71.90948637_at_newshost>#1/1
On Mon, 10 Nov 1997 13:34:19 -0800, William Tierney <wtierney_at_stanford.edu> wrote:
>Dave Nels wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>> Has anyone used the PLEX utility (used for calling C functions from
>> PL/SQL, available from Oracle Government Web site)? Any problems you
>> would like to share before I dig into it? Any opinions would be
>> appreciated.
>
[snip]
>
>We use plex all the time .. we have a Library system
>(unicorn by sirsi corp.) and we pass our queries
>through our Oracle webserver (Using the Oracle
>Gov. web cart) through the plex .. to the unicorn
>api server who returns the search results..
>
>Watch out which user you start plex as ...
>it will have those permissions in Unixland..
>
>I thought plex would be going away though with
>advent of the webserver 3.0 cartridges?
>
Not really. OWAS3.x cartridges are application cartridges, they can be called from the database using UTL_HTTP in version 7.3.3 and up but they are quite like PLEX. What will ultimately remove much of the need for PLEX is Oracle8. Oracle8 adds the ability to have 'external procedures' -- stored procedures you can call from pl/sql triggers/packages/object types that are written in C or someother language instead of pl/sql.
>Na nu
Thomas Kyte
tkyte_at_us.oracle.com
Oracle Government
Bethesda MD
http://govt.us.oracle.com/ -- downloadable utilities
Opinions are mine and do not necessarily reflect those of Oracle Corporation
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