Re: Oracle, Web Servers, and Firewalls

Well, it would certainly be possible to write Java-based apps using Oracle's thin (type 4) JDBC drivers to run on Linux. This would require no Oracle specific software on the Linux box besides the JDBC drivers themselves.

Other than that, I don't think there's any support for Oracle client libraries of any kind on Linux. JDBC would only work because it's not really platform specific.

Devin Redlich wrote:
>
> OK, a couple questions, prefaced with the disclaimer that I'm the network guy,
> not the Oracle guy. I don't know much at all about Oracle.
>
> All right, it's been decreed that we need to be able to integrate our web
> server (Linux + Apache + PHP3) with our Oracle database (7.something, me
> thinks, running on SCO OpenServer V). Two questions:
>
> 1-Our web server and Oracle system are on either side of our firewall - a TIS
> Firewall Toolkit proxy based setup. Since FWTK has no SQL proxy, it look like
> we may have to move to a commercial firewall. I'm looking for recommendations
> on this. Hopefully, something that doesn't cost giant heaps of money. I've
> been looking at TIS Guantlet, but their BSD version doesn't work with Oracle,
> so I'd be looking at buying a Sun workstation to run the Solaris version. $$$.
> I've also heard Raptor is a viable solution, but I haven't got too far with
> this one yet.
>
> 2-Developing Linux programs to that can access the Oracle DB. I'm assuming we
> need Oracle libraries to write programs to access an Oracle DB. Do such
> libraries exist that get along with linux?
>
> Sorry if these are dumb questions, but like I said, I'm not a Oracle guy (nor
> am I a web developer, really).
>
> Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
>
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> Devin Redlich
> devin_at_pctc.com
Received on Sat Apr 25 1998 - 03:36:26 CEST