Re: Zero Client front end to Oracle

Is there any solution without oracle client to connect oracle db ?

A customer of us refused to install any Oracle-Client-Software. We had to implement a portable Visual-C application. At first, we developed a c-interface (via active-x-control) to the (compiled) Oracle jdbc-driver.
This worked well, so far so good: The jdbc-driver implements the sql-net protocol with the result, that the normal asynchron internet-connection conditions (asynchron: fast download, slow upload) brakes the speed. After long discusssions we decided to develop a native html-based Interface: The new Oracle HTTP based Class Library (OHCL) provides native connectivity to the Oracle database server via HTTP requests.

Like other Standard-API-C-Librarys OHCL contains classes f.e. to execute SQL statements, store and process result rows of queries. The difference to standard Oracle-API's:
- No need of Oracle client installation, establishing an Internet
  connection is enough.
- The database access speed increases dramatically special in asynchron
  internet environments like standard access through isdn or dsl (the   normal case).
- Security: Through use of standardized public-key cryptography in
  combination with an encrypted zip-stream.

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