Changes in This Release for Oracle Multimedia Reference

This preface lists changes in Oracle Multimedia Reference.

Changes in Oracle Multimedia 12c Release 1 (12.1)

The following are changes in Oracle Multimedia Reference for Oracle Database 12c Release 1 (12.1).

Deprecated Features

The following feature is deprecated in this release, and may be desupported in a future release:

• ORDImage Support for DICOM

  See "ORDImage Support for DICOM" for information about alternatives.

The following section summarizes this deprecated feature.

ORDImage Support for DICOM

The DICOM support in ORDImage objects that was introduced in Oracle Database 10g Release 2 (10.2) is deprecated in Oracle Database 12c Release 1 (12.1), and may be desupported in a future release.

Oracle recommends writing new medical imaging applications to use the DICOM support that was introduced in Oracle Database 11g Release 1 (11.1). This support is documented in Oracle Multimedia DICOM Developer's Guide.

Oracle also recommends migrating existing applications from the DICOM support in ORDImage objects to the DICOM support that was introduced in Oracle Database 11g Release 1 (11.1). This process is described in Oracle Multimedia DICOM Developer's Guide.