check out pointbase (written in java) at www.pointbase.com
there's a free dev version.
-Original Message-
From: Jason Bainbridge [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, June 09, 2003 3:46 PM
To: Tomcat Users List
Subject: [OT] Re: What Oracle is best?
Oracle is an enterprise
Oracle is an enterprise level commercial Database Management System ie. $$$
where MySQL is an Open Source alternative designed mainly for web application
uses (although this may change with their partnership with SAP). These
DBMS's can be used within servlets and JSP's by using the appropriate
if you have only one machine to run it on then get oracle 9i lite. Its great
for dev & testing locally.
I'm using it with oracle jdbc drivers, tomcat 4.1.24
-Original Message-
From: Jonathan Michael Nowacki [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, June 09, 2003 3:36 PM
To: Tomcat Users List
I believe you'd just need the JDBC driver jars. I'm
connecting to Oracle from a servlet, and that's all
I'm using.
Installing the Oracle client SQL-Plus might be helpful
for working directly with the database tables, but
it's not necessary if someone else has already done
that for you.
You