Why are you limited to the thin driver? The thick driver is pretty easy to
install.
Jim
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"Holger Peine" <peine_at_iese.fraunhofer.de> wrote in message
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> I found some more information in another Oracle document (Application
> Developers Guide) and can thus phrase my own question more specifically:
>
>
> Holger Peine wrote:
>
> > Hello everyone,
> >
> > I am considering to add n(=3)-tier-authentication and lightweight
> > user sessions to an existing Oracle-8.1.7 / Bea Weblogic 6.1 application
> > (with the application on the Bea server implemented in Java).
> >
> > The Oracle Call Interface (OCI) seems to provide just that (and more).
> > However, when reading the OCI Programmer's Guide at
>
>http://download-west.oracle.com/docs/cd/A87860_01/doc/appdev.817/a76975/toc
.htm
> > I'm confused whether OCI is really available, since it says there (in
the
> > "Overview" section):
> >
> > OCI supports the datatypes, calling conventions, syntax, and
semantics
> > of a number of third-generation languages including C, C++, COBOL and
> > FORTRAN.
> >
> > That is, no mentioning of using OCI from Java. I cannot quite believe
> > this. Is there another way to do this from Java?
>
> Well, OCI is indeed not avaible per se (e.g. as a Java package), but
> the various JDBC drivers for Java offers access to OCI functionality
> to varying extent.
> Specifically, there is the JDBC OCI driver, which provices full OCI
> access. Unfortunately, I am limited to the JDBC thin driver, which
> supports only a limited subset (e.g. probably no external authentication
> services, at least not as of Oracle 8.1.6).
>
> So, my question is now:
>
> *** Does the JDBC thin driver support proxy authentication
> and lightweight user sessions? ***
>
> Thanks for your advice,
> Holger.
>
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Received on Tue Jun 17 2003 - 09:30:57 CDT
