The Oracle JDBC Drivers are available under the Free Software
section of http://www.oracle.com.
There are two "flavors" of drivers. Type 2 drivers (or OCI
Drivers) which require the Oracle Client Interface drivers. These drivers
are simply interfaces to the normal client drivers, which means that you must
have the OCI drivers installed on each client that will access the database
(With servlets, this usually only means the Web Server machines). The
other driver "flavor" is the Type 4 or Thin Drivers. These
drivers are 100% Pure Java. They know how to use the java.net stuff to
talk directly to the Oracle Server without any additional drivers. These
are my personal favorites since they require almost no set up and work very
well.
(*Chris*)
----- Original Message -----From: Kenia NimeshSent: Friday, March 05, 1999 9:00 PMSubject: Drivers for ServletI have developed an servlet application.Until now I was using jdbc.odbc drivers with MS Access as my database.Now I want to launch my application.On the web server Oracle is the database.I wanted to know what drivers should I be using??Where's the driver availability??I have heard something like thin drivers and OCI drivers.. What are they??It would also be helpful if you could give some steps for making the connection.Thankyou
