Oracle Application Development Feature Improvements

Application Program Interface (API) and precompilers


Oracle provides Open Database Connectivity (ODBC) Driver Support for Linux.

Now you can develop ODBC applications on Linux platforms.


Oracle Call Interface (OCI) Client Version API - This allows applications to be compiled for multiple versions of the Oracle client from a single source code environment.


Start Up and Shut Down of Database OCI API –

This feature adds API calls for starting and stopping a database from inside an application. This enables testers to start up and shut down databases without using SQL*Plus or other tools.

Globalization and Unicode Improvements

Oracle's Unicode character sets, AL32UTF8 and AL16UTF16, have been updated to support Unicode 4.0 in Oracle Database 10g Release 2.

Globalization Development Kit (GDK) 2.0 -

Globalization Development Kit (GDK) has added new locales and common locale mapping information into the GDK for the PL/SQL package.