Xref: alice comp.databases.oracle.tools:40619 Path: alice!news-feed.fnsi.net!news-FFM2.ecrc.net!newsfeeds.belnet.be!news.belnet.be!afrodite.telenet-ops.be!not-for-mail From: "Leo Van Nieuwenhuyse" Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle.tools References: <89ohsm$fkh$1@nnrp1.deja.com> Subject: Re: WebDB/OAS Newbie questions Lines: 23 X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Message-ID: Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2000 21:04:52 GMT X-Complaints-To: abuse@pandora.be X-Trace: afrodite.telenet-ops.be 952117492 213.224.4.183 (Fri, 03 Mar 2000 22:04:52 MET) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2000 22:04:52 MET Organization: Pandora-- Met vlotte tred op Internet > We are looking at using OAS and have also heard about > WebDB. Could anyone explain how these two products > go together (if they do)? Yes they do fine, webdb is implemented as a cartride (dynamic load library) in oas. > > Also, can you plug WebDB into an OAS installation so > that you can use all the functionality of OAS, but > use WebDB to create your pages? Yes you can, you can even include ssl security. > Some other questions: > 1. Can you use WebDB remotely via SQLnet? Yes you can, but there are some problems on certain versions of the db when using reports based on a sql-statement: problem is in oci, there's a patch available for 8.1.5. > 2. What listener does WebDB use and can you change it? It uses it's own listener, wich is a small version of oas. But as mentionned above, you can use oas with the wdbctx cartridge. > 3. What's the latest version of WebDB? The latest version is 2.2. 3.0 is in Beta.