Oracle Proxy Authentication

Question

Oracle9i 9.2.0.1.0
WebLogic Server 7.0 SP3
We want to use Oracle's Proxy Authentication and don't have a clue about
configuring WebLogic.
Can anyone assist?
Brian Dick

Answer 1

Shailesh Ligade wrote:
Hello Joe,
I want to do, what oracle is suggesting me to do, namely,
InitialContext initial =
new InitialContext();
OracleOCIConnectionPool ds =
(OracleOCIConnectionPool)
initial.lookup("jdbc/OracleOciDS");
oracle.jdbc.OracleConnection conn = null;
Properties p = new Properties();
p.setProperty(PROXY_USER_NAME, username);
p.setProperty(PROXY_PASSWORD, pwd);
conn = ds.getProxyConnection(PROXYTYPE_USER_NAME, p);
This from the oracle website, I want to add password to the properties. I understandI will have to change jndi lookup i have to modify to match mine. The thing is that,
what I heard is, weblogic drivers don't support this type of authetication, is that
true? If they don't then how can I get 'OracleOCIConnectionPool' for a pool configured,
for oracle oci (or thick) driver, from the bea console?
Hi. You can do exactly that with a direct Oracle DataSource, but no middleware product
will be able to interact with them. We could wrap Oracle-specific objects, and make
methods like getProxyConnection(), but Oracle makes the contiinuing mistake of
providing these non-standard JDBC methods with no Interface to define them. This
means that you have to cast to a concrete Oracle class to use the methods, and
WebLogic classes cannot be Oracle classes. We can both be javax.sql.DataSource,
because that's an Interface...
You could contact support at BEA and ask for a feature to provide getProxyConnection
functionality, but your code would still have to look a little different, at least
in the cast.
Joe