Re: JDBC to oracle

In article <4p6l7b$4mv_at_news.tamu.edu>, jhamann_at_cs.tamu.edu (Jerrid Hamann) writes:
|> In article <31B59A65.6A38_at_homeaccount.com>,
|> Jamie Whetsell <jwhetsel_at_homeaccount.com> wrote:
|> >I am trying to establish a connection to an oracle database using JDBC..
|> >I am looking for exaple code or documentation. I have looked at the
|> >java docs from sun and they seem to be a little vague.
|> >
|>
|> I would like to do something similar, but my research has found that
|> Oracle has yet to develop and release JDBC drivers for their products.
|> If someone out there knows differently, please speak up.

This week Sun will freeze the JDBC spec AND release a JDBC to ODBC gtwy (implemented by Intersolv). So if you already have an ODBC driver for Oracle, this will work. Note that the applet would need the ODBC driver too, so is not very mobile.

WebLogic is providing a native JDBC driver to Oracle, so removes the need to have ODBC. They also have a proprietary vendor neutral db api (dbKona) that also allows applets to talk to the db via a dbKona server.

Oracle promises to have a Java/OCI out in 30-60 days. I've also seen this from Vincent Engineering (but lost the URL). Many other vendors (Visigenic, Symantec, XDB,...) have JDBC drivers, mostly leveraging existing ODBC drivers, but not all released yet. Many have a strategy of providing a native java client for applets that accesses a server that uses ODBC to get to the db.

Mark. Received on Thu Jun 06 1996 - 00:00:00 CEST