I haven't had a chance to play with Oracle 9i, but I do have experience with 8i and classes112.zip is the drivier you want.
the older 8i jdbc driver did not have pooling support and had several bugs. one bug I found with a co-worker was verified in classes111.zip driver and fixed in classes112.zip peter --- Chong Yu Meng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Oh dear ! I had 2 consultants from Oracle India > helping me the last > time, and it took about 2 weeks to get everything > right, but that > involved installing and tuning Oracle 8 and 8i, > setting up automated > backups, etc., along with JDBC. Cost a bomb, but > they were quite good. I > don't think I could have done the job without them. > > The way I would start would be : > 1. Find out the version of Oracle - 8.1.5, like I > said, has pretty flaky > drivers (not sure if Oracle has released any new > versions since my last > disastrous encounter back in 2000), but 8.1.7 seems > to be ok. DataDirect > drivers are still your safest bet, I believe, and > they're pretty cheap > (in Singapore anyway). > 2. Read up on JDBC and SQL. There are some excellent > tutorials on the > Internet. Try IBM Developerworks > (http://www.ibm.com/developer). If your > implementation is simple enough (i.e. do most of > your processing outside > the database, and use the database only as a > repository), this should be > all you need. > 3. See if you can get help from a resident Oracle > guru. I suppose you > could post your questions here, but I'm no expert in > Oracle, and I'd be > unable to help you. I'm not sure about the level of > Oracle support on > the newsgroups or websites. For IBM's DB2, the > support is the best I > have ever experienced, with the original developers > sometimes pitching > in to help in the newsgroups. > > Hope this helps ! > > Regards, > pascal chong > > > Swapneel Dange wrote: > > > hi MIKE, PENG , CHONG !! > > > > guys, there seems to be a problem here for me with > the database > > implementation. After all the discussion i was all > set to implemenent > > the database as a FILESYSTEM only but my BOSS > insists that ORACLE > > shoudl be implemented. Can somebody of u enlighten > me with the SITES > > and README files about impplementing ORACLE under > TOMCAT umbrella and > > what could be the DRIVERS i need to know before i > plunge into the deep > > sea of ORACLE implementation. some of the drivers > suggested are the > > ones made by DATATAKE, JBOSS (i guess, i may be > wrong)or the default > > drivers which come up with the ORACLE. > > > > Comments are really awaited ! > > > > Swapneel Dange > > 505-642-4126 > > http://www.cs.nmsu.edu/~sdange > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - forms, calculators, tips, more http://taxes.yahoo.com/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
