Thank You Tim, Your information helped me a lot. On Oct 16, 10:29 am, Tim <t...@mobiforms.com> wrote: > Dear Goutham, > > I would like to reassure you that it is technically possible and it is > practically workable todirectlyconnect to anOracledatabasefromAndroid. > > As long as you have a mind to secure the connection. On an internal > network with Wi-Fi that is fine with WEP etc. With GPRS/3G it is best > to make sure you use a SIM with a private corporate APN, or a device > with a static IP address or from a known range so that youcannail > down your internet router/gateway. > > Keep it simple - there is no need to build multiple and convoluted > layers of middleware like REST services. > > For the "nay sayers":-Androidcontains and supports all standard JDBC > connectivity. There are a range of commercial and free "desktop"databaseJDBC > drivers (which contain no GUI references and so work > quite happily withAndroid) that youcanembed within yourapplication. > > In fact this is what we have done with our MobiForms mobile > rapidapplicationdevelopment tool to enable the MobiForms client to > connectdirectlyto remote databases. For offline support we also offer the > MobiForms Sync Server which allows data to be buffered in anAndroid > HSQLDBdatabaseand then synchronised back via the remote MobiForms > Sync Server to anydatabasecapable of JDBC connectivity such asOracle, SQL > Server, MySQL etc. > > The other advantages of our MobiForms Developer is that you do not > have to use Eclipse, theAndroidSDK or write your own SQL cursors and > result sets. For more information have a look at our web > site:http://www.mobiforms.com. > > Kind regards, > > Tim @ MobiForms > > Goutham P N wrote: > > Hi Everyone, > > > I'm new to theandroidapplicationdevelopment. I found some packages > > java.sql and javax.sql packages in the API ofandroidwhile going > > through it.Mydoubt iscanIaccesstheOracleDatabasedirectly > > using drivers. So what type of driver is used to connect. > > > Please any one reply me. > > > Thanks & Regards.
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