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  1. Is it safe to use JDBC-ODBC bridge in production environment?
  2. How to use Orache thin driver?

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Is it safe to use JDBC-ODBC bridge in production environment?

No, do not use JDBC-ODBC bridge bundled with Sun's JDK with Tomcat. It was never meant for a production server environment. If you ask a question about it, everyone will tell you to not use it. If you do need to use ODBC, there are 3rd party drivers which do a pretty good job at being thread safe.

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How to use Orache thin driver?

If you use the oracle thin driver, be sure to rename it to a jar file from a zip file. Tomcat only auto-magically loads files ending in .jar placed in a lib directory. It ignores all other file extensions.

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