Applications Versus Applets
In order to connect to the database, you can write your Java program as an application or applet. Applications can use either the Oracle JDBC thin driver or Oracle JDBC OCI driver. If you use a JDBC OCI driver in an application, the application will require the installation of Net8 and client libraries. Applications can achieve encryption by using the Net8 advanced networking option.
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Applications that can run on the client using the JDBC OCI driver can run on the server using the JDBC server driver.
An applet can use only the JDBC thin driver that gets downloaded with it. An applet can open only network connections to the host machine from which it was downloaded. Therefore it can directly connect only to databases ...
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