Re: Oracle Frontend / Backend Protocol

Hans-Jürgen Schönig wrote:

> I am fairly new to Oracle in general.
> One of my customers is asking for a software implementing the Oracle
> wire-protocol.
> The idea is: They have a very old Cobol application which cannot be
> changed anymore. They want to migrate from Oracle to other databases
> without changing their Cobol software.
> My idea was: To implement an adapter talking "Oracle". This adapter can
> then transform the Oracle protocol to something else.
> My question now is: Which wire protocol does Oracle support? Is it
> realistic to implement something like that in realistic time?
> Can anybody point me to Oracle specs describing the protocol?
>
> Regards,
>
> Hans

Proprietary. No public API.

Details, as they exist, available in the Oracle Networking manuals at http://tahiti.oracle.com or http://docs.oracle.com

/Hans Received on Tue Oct 12 2004 - 15:04:15 CEST