Submitted by jpt on Tue, 07/29/2008 - 01:22.

Hi,

I'm new to Ziptie and I would like to know, if someone has Ziptie running with an Oracle database.
If not, is it possible to do so? Normally, I think Java can interact with a Oracle db.

Please put this post to the right category in the forum, if it's wrong here ;)

Thanks

JPT

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Oracle

Submitted by brettw on Tue, 07/29/2008 - 07:29.

ZipTie does not support Oracle. Even though Java has a quasi-independent database layer (JDBC), there are still things that must be done to support a given database. There is an intial development and on-going development cost associated with supporting databases. Because ZipTie is an open source project, the decision was made to support three mainstream open source databases (Apache Derby, PostgreSQL, and MySQL). Given that probably 1% of our users are interested in Oracle support, the development cost would be high relative to the return. Of the users that would _like_ Oracle support, most are able to accept one of the three supported databases as a solution. Having said that, AlterPoint (the sponsor of ZipTie) has a commercial product that supports Oracle, so if Oracle is a requirement you should look in that direction. There are many things shared between ZipTie and AlterPoint's commercial offering, but database support is not one them.

-Brett

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Oracle

Submitted by jpt on Tue, 07/29/2008 - 08:34.

Thanks for the fast answer. I will see if we can use another db for Ziptie.

JPT

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