34 Introduction to the OCI Interface for XStream

This chapter provides an overview of the OCI interface for XStream.

The Oracle Call Interface (OCI) includes an interface for XStream. This chapter provides an introduction to the OCI interface for XStream.

This chapter contains these topics:

• About the XStream Interface

• Handler and Descriptor Attributes

• About the XStream Interface
  Since Oracle Database 11g Release 2, APIs, known as XStream Out and XStream In, are available.
• Handler and Descriptor Attributes
  Describes the attributes for OCI handles and descriptors.

See Also:

• Oracle Database XStream Guide for detailed information about XStream Out concepts

• Oracle Database XStream Guide for information about configuring XStream Out

• OCI XStream Functions for information about OCI XStream functions