http://gregluck.com/blog/archives/2005/05/the-horror-of-oracles-oci-driver/ I am sick of simple. Things should be great! Tue, 07 Sep 2010 21:33:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://gregluck.com/blog/archives/2005/05/the-horror-of-oracles-oci-driver/comment-page-1/#comment-49 Guy Mac Thu, 12 May 2005 06:34:52 +0000 http://gregluck.com/blog/2005/05/the-horror-of-oracles-oci-driver/#comment-49 Other horrors are <ul> <li>Oracle will probably be installed so the 64-bit libraries come first on the LD_LIBRARY_PATH, but your app server or java may not be 64-bit, resulting in hard-to debug segfaults.</li> <li>They may not play nice with connection pools. E.g. they may not be returned to the pool after being closed, so you quickly run out of connections.</li> <li>Using native libraries just does not work well with the classloaders on some app-servers. E.g. the native library can only be loaded once, if you deploy some new code that will try to load the native library, you'll have to restart the app server first. </li> </ul> Other horrors are

• Oracle will probably be installed so the 64-bit libraries come first on the LD_LIBRARY_PATH, but your app server or java may not be 64-bit, resulting in hard-to debug segfaults.
• They may not play nice with connection pools. E.g. they may not be returned to the pool after being closed, so you quickly run out of connections.
• Using native libraries just does not work well with the classloaders on some app-servers. E.g. the native library can only be loaded once, if you deploy some new code that will try to load the native library, you’ll have to restart the app server first.

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