Re: TCP/IP to Oracle Listener

Jeff Page wrote:
>
> I'm experimenting with the idea of a client application communicating
> directly with an Oracle Listener via TCP/IP sockets. Can anyone point me
> towards documentation that specifies the format of messages passed
> to/from the Listener for:
> 1) Logon
> 2) Query Database
> 3) Return result set
> 4) Logoff

Oracle's SQL*Net messaging is internal only. In fact, there is no "overall" documentation even internally, since the content of the messages is defined on-the-fly.

As long as the client library implements the same stuff as the corresponding code in the server process (which can be an Oracle server, a Gateway, or any other Unix process for that matter) it'll work.

So the short answer is: Give up...

Regards,

Kees

PS. There used to be tools that did this -- one of them converted SQL*Net SPX/IPX v1 into SQL*Net TCP/IP v1. It's not so very difficult, it's just difficult to keep up with all the Oracle releases. Received on Wed Jul 31 1996 - 00:00:00 CEST