From: Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@...>
Date: 2004-07-16T07:37:28+09:00
Subject: Re: scripting language (fwd)

On Friday, July 16, 2004, 5:25:47 AM, Jamis wrote:

> 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).

Couldn't the thin client be written in C and then wrapped in every
scripting language imaginable?  If so, *is* there an Oracle thin
client library written in C already?

Gavin