And another great thing about this driver is that your client doesn't have
to have this driver on his machine at all, if you are using the applet.
This driver vill be downloaded with the applet Yes it's a few hundreed KB,
and for some casses it's not practical, but if that is not the issue, you'll
get connected.


----- Original Message -----
From: vinod admala <vinodreddya@u...>
To: Pro_JavaServer_Pages <pro_jsp@p...>
Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2001 7:13 AM
Subject: [pro_jsp] Re: [Thin drivers]


Hi Rajan_Behal,
    JDBC/ODBC default driver is not a pure java based driver.i.e. it is not
platform independent and Moreover it is having less features and also for
real
time projects, it's not advisable to use.Instead Thin driver is a pure java
based driver from Oracle Corporation.And also it is having more features and
platform independent.If you use thin driver the network trophy will be
decreased.i.e.
 Just imagine u r running an application from location machine and want to
connect to the remote machine where the Oracle is installed.In this case,
you
don't need have client libraries in your machine and Remote machine is going
to have all the necessary files(libraries).So you don't need to install the
client libraries in the local machines.This is a biggest advantage when u
use
thin drivers.
  And also there is another driver OCI which is oracle call interface. This
is
partly java driver, but some people will use this driver for projects
depends
on the requirement.But if you use this driver, u need to have client
libraries
in your machine i.e. each machine should have this bundle of software when
they want to communicate Remote server where Oracle is installed.
  Finally thin and oci are having their own importance.So we will use these
depends on the requirment.

o.k. then enjoy........

vinod




Rajan_Behal <Rajan_Behal@h...> wrote:
Hi

What r thin drivers. What's difference between them & JDBC/ODBC
drivers

With regards

Rajan Behal