9i and 10g backward compatibility

We are thinking of trying out Oracle 10g. We are
currently using 9i and have written Java apps that
work against 9i using the JDBC drivers provided by
Oracle. We would like to know if these apps will
work perfectly against 10g without any changes if we
use the new 10g JDBC drivers.
Thanks.We make OrindaBuild, a JDBC access code generator for PL/SQL. We found a series of minor behaviour changes when we ported it to 10g, such as:
* In oracle 9i retrieving a NULL value for any of the datatypes TIMESTAMP, TIMESTAMP WITH TIME ZONE or TIMESTAMP WITH LOCAL TIME ZONE would result in a matching but empty java object being returned. In 10g null is returned instead, which means that existing code may suddenly start to generate java.lang.NullPointerException Exceptions when the driver is upgraded.
* Prior to Oracle 10.1.0 DATE columns were returned as java.sql.TimeStamp objects. In Oracle 10G they come back as java.sql.Date objects.
* Get Cursor Closed message when attempting to retrieve a cursor a second time. Prior to 10.1.0 Oracle returned a zero-length cursor.
None of the above are bugs but you are going to have to test your app and possibly make minor code changes. Do not assume the new driver will work 'out of the box'.
David Rolfe
Orinda Software
Dublin, Ireland
www.orindasoft.com

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Les Fielke (guest) wrote:
: Is it possible to load a .fmb file created using Developer/2000
: Form Builder for Windows 95 (V5.0) and then convert it so that
: it can be loaded into Forms Developer V 4.5 (16 bit). The same
: applies to backward compatibility of different versions of
: Oracle reports.
: A number of students in my 4GL Programming class have access to
: more recent versions of Oracle products then those installed at
: my College, and would like to develop assignments, etc, on both
: platforms.
Developer is not Backwards compatibile across major releases(2.x
to 1.X).
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An error occcurred on line 105 while executing script 'MOM Backward Compatibility Service State Monitoring Script"

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Cynthia Ryan Graphic wrote:
I am all for working with better workflow practices and I understand that saving files backwards is less than ideal but Adobe needs to look at the real world uses of their software as well. I have to work with firms that aren't upgrading now--especially with the economy we are now in--and most of the items I design for them are ads-- one page- nothing too complex--really nothing fancy. I obviously wouldn't save a book or a very complex document backwards in this way, but simple things have translated just fine in the past. In the real world we hit situations like this.
I bought my software 21 months ago and in this time Adobe has expected me to upgrade twice--I haven't even finished expensing the initial cost of the software on my books yet. Upgrading that often just can't happen in a small firm--it's prohibitively expensive for a one man shop.
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libbysharf wrote:
The bennefit of this is that all the components that worked fine with the previous "L" and were not changed, are guarantied to continue working, and needn't any QA.Based on what you have stated here, this is not necessarily the case. Just having the same method signatures doesn't not mean that it will work exactly the same way. Even if the methods from L are implemented in the exact same way in L2, you could have situations where the new L2 methods change the behavior of the old L methods.
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