Oci8 Jdbc Driver - Oracle Application 9i Configuration Manual

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1.7 OCI8 JDBC Driver

The default configuration of Wireless Edition uses the Oracle THIN JDBC driver.
For a production environment, the Oracle OCI8 JDBC driver is required, as it
provides improved performance, concurrency, scalability, and multi-byte support.
Additionally, this driver is required if the Oracle Parallel Server option is used.
To configure Wireless Edition to use the Oracle OCI8 driver:
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From the Edit menu, select Preferences, and then Configuration.
Enter the Proxy (HTTP) and the Secure Proxy (HTTPS) settings appropriate for
your environment.
Click OK.
Verify that ORACLE_HOME is the directory under which Wireless Edition has
been installed.
On Windows: Modify the jserv.properties file to include the PATH of the
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directory where the OCI library (ocijdbc8.dll) is installed. The default is
ORACLE_HOME\bin.
wrapper.path=<ORACLE_HOME>\bin
On UNIX: Verify that the LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable
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includes the directory where the OCI libraries (libocijdbc8.so and
libocijdbc8_g.so) are installed. The default is ORACLE_HOME/lib.
Modify the System.properties file to change the driver and the connect string
settings.
db.connect.string=%WE_REPOSITORY_USERNAME%/%WE_REPOSITORY_USER_
PW%@(description=(address=(host=%WE_REPOSITORY_
HOST%)(protocol=tcp)(port=%WE_REPOSITORY_PORT%))(connect_data=(sid=%WE_
REPOSITORY_SID%)))
db.driver=V8
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