Oracle Database 12c Security Cookbook

Chapter 12. Appendix – Application Contexts

In this chapter, we will cover the following tasks:

• Exploring and using built-in contexts
• Creating an application context
• Setting application context attributes
• Using an application context

Introduction

An application context is a memory container that holds a set of key-value pairs. You can think of an application context as an array of attributes where every attribute has a name (key) and value. Also, an application context is a namespace because in different application contexts, attributes that have the same name can exist (and there is no correlation between those attributes; they can store the same or different value).

To implement a local application context, you should complete steps shown in Figure ...