From: Austin Ziegler <halostatue@...>
Date: 2004-07-16T04:31:35+09:00
Subject: Re: scripting language (fwd)

On Fri, 16 Jul 2004 04:25:47 +0900, Jamis Buck <jgb3@email.byu.edu> wrote:
> Carl Youngblood wrote:
> > Isn't there source code for the oci oracle protocol out there?  A lot
> > of open source projects have that option.  I'm thinking of PHP.  You
> > might want to look at the source before you try reverse-engineering
> > anything.
> >
> 
> Well, looking at the OCI stuff in PHP, it looks like it relies on the
> Oracle client being installed as well. It then makes API calls into the
> Oracle client libraries to connect to and query the database.
> 
> What I would like is to remove the Oracle client as a dependency, just
> as the Oracle JDBC (thin) client does. The thin (as opposed to the oci)
> Oracle JDBC client implements in pure Java the network protocols that
> communicate with the Oracle database server.
> 
> This means that the thin client will ultimately be less responsive than
> the oci client, but its GREAT for working on your own machine.
> 
> I'm hoping that something like this can be written for Ruby, in Ruby,
> without the need to create an extension module in C to bridge into the
> Oracle OCI stuff (which is what the current ruby oracle module does).
> 
> I'm not volunteering to write it--I've got too much on my plate
> already--I was just wondering if anyone else has thought about doing this.

I don't do any direct work with Oracle anymore; if I were to do so, I
might look at reverse engineering this -- but I also spent the last
little while to see if anyone has come up with an open source Oracle
thin driver; it appears not.

-austin
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