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Introduction

This chapter discusses the Oracle Application Server InterConnect Adapter for DB (Database adapter) and the hardware and software requirements. This chapter provides an overview of the Database adapter.

Database Adapter Overview

The Oracle Application Server InterConnect Adapter for DB (Database adapter) enables an Oracle Application, typically PL/SQL-based, to be integrated with other applications using Oracle Application Server InterConnect (OracleAS InterConnect). This adapter is useful in all enterprise application integration scenarios involving Oracle Database applications.

This guide explains all necessary design time and runtime concepts of the Database adapter.

Hardware Requirements

The following table lists the hardware requirements for the computer on which the Database adapter is installed.

Hardware	Windows	UNIX
Memory	128 MB	128 MB
Disk Space	500 MB	500 MB

Software Requirements

The following are software requirements for the Database Adapter:

• Operating System Requirements

• JRE Requirements

• Database Requirements

Operating System Requirements

Table 1-1 lists operating system requirements for the computer on which the Database adapter is installed.

Table 1-1 Operating System Requirements

Operating System	Version
Windows NT	Version 4.0 with Service Pack 6 or above.
Windows 2000	With Service Pack 1 or above.
IBM AIX 5L	5.1 and 5.2 (64 bit)
HP Tru64	5.1a and 5.1b (64 bit)
HP-UX	11.0 and 11.11 (64 bit)
Red Hat Linux	Advanced Server 2.1
Sun SPARC Solaris	8 and 9 (32 bit)

JRE Requirements

OracleAS InterConnect uses JRE 1.4.1 which is installed with its components.

Database Requirements

The Database adapter requires Oracle7.x or later version of the Oracle database. Typically, the database should already be used by the application. If this database is not used by the application, install Oracle7.x, Oracle8i, or Oracle9i database.