Re: User exits or PL/SQL Interface?

In article <3spqui$hfd_at_sun.cr.usgs.gov> Kevin Muhm <kmuhm> writes:
>...
>According to the Forms documentation, instead of writing user exits in
>4.5 I can link my barcoding functions to the forms via the PL/SQL
>interface. Have any of you done this successfully? I am not sure from
>reading the documentation whether the foreign functions should be
>compiled to a .obj file or to a library. I have also just got my hands on
>...

The foreign function interface in Developer/2000 is provided through a built-in PL/SQL package called ORA_FFI. It allows you to call functions in dynamic libraries (DLLs, for you Windows folks). ORA_FFI is fully documented in the Procedure Builder 1.5 Developer's Guide.

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