What do you mean by flaky ?
-Henric
----- Original Message -----
From: Rod McChesney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, March 12, 1999 9:13 PM
Subject: Re: Drivers for Servlet
Not only that, the OCI drivers are flaky. Stick with the thin drivers.
Rod McChesney, Korobra Corporation
Patrick McGovern wrote:
>
> I've been using the thin drivers because it requires almost zero setup. With the
>OCI's you have to install SQL-Net on each machine.
>
> Patrick
>
> >>> Sreenivasa R V <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 03/12 11:58 AM >>>
> Hi Madhu,
> We are developing an Intranet application using servlets.
> Our configuration is as follows:
> Servlet Engine: Jrun2.3
> Web Server: Netscape Enterprise Server
> Browsers : Netscape 4.0 and above or IE 4 and above.
> Database: Oracle8.0
> Both Web Server and Database will be residing on Solaris 2.6
>
> We are not able to decide whether we should go for Type 2(OCI ) driver or
> Type 4 driver. We donot have any prior experience on both of these drivers. I've
> worked only with JDBC-ODBC bridge. Can u please give us some details on the
> performance and advantages-disadvantages for these 2 drivers.
>
> Regards,
> RVS
>
> "Gullanki, Madhu" wrote:
>
> > Hi Nimesh,
> > The best drivers to use for Oracle from servlets is Oracle JDBC drivers.
> > They are available in 2 types.
> > 1) Thin drivers 2) OCI drivers. You can download them for free from
> > Oracle's web site and also you can find the instructions how to use them
> > right there. I used OCI drivers. They worked great.
> >
> > The steps to make connection are:
> > DriverManager.registerDriver(new oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver());
> > DriverManager.getConnection("jdbc:oracle:oci7:@MyDatabase","userid","passwor
> > d");
> >
> > --
> > MG
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Kenia Nimesh [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > > Sent: Friday, March 05, 1999 11:01 PM
> > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > Subject: Drivers for Servlet
> > >
> > > I 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
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
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