ODBC, OCI, OCCI

Hi,
Could anyone tell me whether I can access a Oracle Spatial instance through Oracle 9i AS Wireless using ODBC, OCI or OCCI. I want to interrogate the spatial database from a Compaq iPAQ running the familiar distribution of embedded Linux.
Cheers,
Sean

iAS is an application server, which pretty much indicates that you'll be writing Java. ODBC, OCI, and OCCI are C or C++ API's. It's probably possible to set up a system that makes JNI calls in iAS to C or C++ libraries, but that hardly seems like the ideal architecture.
If you want to use a Java application, JDBC is the Java API for database access. JDBC will certainly allow you to work with the Oracle Spatial datatypes.
You can also use things like mod_plsql with iAS to do the vast majority of middle tier work in PL/SQL.
If you want to use OCI or OCCI, you could certainly write a middle tier layer there, throw some ASP pages on top, and expose that through IIS (since you mentioned ODBC as an option, I'm assuming you're a Windows shop).
The ODBC does not provide a particularly useful way to work with Oracle-specific data types like those in interMedia.
Justin
Distributed Database Consulting, Inc.
www.ddbcinc.com

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ORA-21500: internal error code, arguments: [], [], [], [], [], [], [], []
ORA-21500: internal error code, arguments: [17099], [], [], [], [], [], [], []
----- Call Stack Trace -----
ORA-21500: internal error code, arguments: [], [], [], [], [], [], [], []
ORA-21500: internal error code, arguments: [17099], [], [], [], [], [], [], []
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ORA-21500: internal error code, arguments: [17099], [], [], [], [], [], [], []
----- Call Stack Trace -----
calling call entry argument values in hex
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I'm downloading the 11.2g client in the hope it works there without a hitch..
Any help/suggestions whould be much appreciated..
Cheers
James

Shiyer,
libmoxa.so is the library I have created which is performing the oracle queries..
The pool is created from the main thread by:
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cheers
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