On Tue, 14 Aug 2001, Rob S. wrote:
> > Yes, of course including the jdbc jar in WEB-INF/lib is gonna make the
> .war
> > platform specific in so far as the database is concerned. What other
> option
>
> AHHH ok I was thinking, "wtf? JDBC drivers run on any platform!" =)
>
Well, not *always* ...
For example, Oracle offers their drivers in two flavors -- one that uses
the appropriate Oracle SQL*Net installation on your system (so it is
platform dependent), and the other that does its own network
communications and thus runs everywhere.
A "type 4" driver (in JDBC parlance, <http://java.sun.com/products/jdbc>)
is the kind that is portable.
> - r
>
Craig
