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 Subject: What Oracle is best? Just wondering what kind of oracle programs do I need to get Tomcat to access an SQL database. I have servlets already written that work on another Sun OS machine that I still have access to. Is there a way I can query the OS to find out what versions of oracle are installed? The RPM command obviously doesn't work (since it is a Sun OS), and I don't have root permissions of course. If I can't query the Sun OS what versions of Oracle do you recommend. I tried browsing the oracle homepage and google searches but that just made me more confused from the vast number of choices. Also do I need sqlplus or JDBC if I have j2sdk, tomcat, and MySQL? This is whats already installed: ----------------------------------------------- tomcat4-webapps-4.1.24-full.2jpp tomcat4-4.1.24-full.2jpp tomcat4-admin-webapps-4.1.24-full.2jpp j2re1.4.1_02 j2sdkee1.4 j2sdk1.4.1_02 redhat 8 standard MySQL that comes with Redhat 8 Linux Sample Servlet code that works on another computer ---------------------------------------------------- import javax.servlet.*; import javax.servlet.http.*; import java.io.*; import java.util.*; import java.sql.*; public class MultiServlet extends HttpServlet { /** * Initialize global variables */ public void init(ServletConfig config) throws ServletException { super.init(config); } /** * Process the HTTP Post request */ public void doPost(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response) throws ServletException, IOException { String category = request.getParameter("category"); response.setContentType("text/html"); PrintWriter out = new PrintWriter (response.getOutputStream()); out.println("<html>"); out.println("<head><title>Advanced Search</title></head>"); out.println("<body><table border=1 cellpadding = 5 cellspacing = 0>"); try { System.out.println ("\n before registering driver \n"); DriverManager.registerDriver(new oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver()); System.out.println (" before GET Connection \n"); Connection conn = DriverManager.getConnection ("jdbc:oracle:thin:@dbserv.uits.indiana.edu:1521:OED1","s3jm013","s3jm013"); System.out.println (" before STatement \n"); Statement stmt = conn.createStatement(); --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]