Description of the illustration netag080.eps

This illustration shows three Web clients connecting to an Oracle database through an application Web server configured with Oracle Connection Manager. The connections from the clients are funneled to a single network connection to an Oracle database.

The database server shows a communication stack that includes two layers. From the top down, the stack is constructed with the following layers:

Oracle Connection Manager users a single network connection to connect the clients to the Oracle Net layer on the database server.