List of Figures

1-1 Basic Client-to-Server Connection

1-2 Listener in a Connection Request

1-3 Client to Server Connections through Oracle Connection Manager

1-4 Client Using a Naming Method to Resolve a Connect Identifier

2-1 Listener In a Typical Net8 Connection

2-2 MTS Connection Model

2-3 Direct Hand-Off to a Dispatcher

2-4 Redirected Connection to a Dispatcher

2-5 Connection Pooling

2-6 Dedicated Server Model

2-7 Redirected Connection to a Dedicated Server Process

2-8 Connections To Prespawned Dedicated Servers

2-9 Redirected Connection to a Prespawned Dedicated Server Process

2-10 Service Registration

2-11 Load Balancing Environment

2-12 Load Balancing Example

2-13 Client Using a Directory to Resolve a Connect Identifier

2-14 Database Service in a Directory

2-15 Domain Component DIT

2-16 X.500 Style DIT

2-17 Creating Entries in the Directory with Applications

2-18 Relative Naming

2-19 Absolute Name for X.500 Namespaces

2-20 Absolute Name for Domain Component Namespaces

2-21 Directory User Groups

3-1 OSI Communications Stack

3-2 Typical Communications Stack in an Oracle Environment

3-3 Typical Client vs. Net8 LDAP Client Communications Stack

3-4 Typical Client vs. JDBC Client Communications Stack

3-5 Java Client/Server Communications Stack in a JDBC Environment

3-6 Typical Net8 Client vs. Oracle8i JServer Client Communication Stack

3-7 Client/Server Communications Stack in an Oracle8i JServer Environment

4-1 Connection Concentration through Oracle Connection Manager

4-2 Multi-Protocol Support Through Oracle Connection Manager

4-3 Oracle Names

4-4 Single Domain Naming Model

4-5 Hierarchical Naming Model

4-6 Delegated Administrative Regions

6-1 Single Domain Export to the Same DIT Node

6-2 Root and Subdomain Domain Export to Similar DIT

6-3 Single Domain Export to One DIT Node

6-4 Root and Subdomain Domain Export to Dissimilar DIT

6-5 Root and Subdomain Domain Export to One DIT Node

6-6 Multiple Domain Export to Two Subtrees

9-1 MTS Architecture

10-1 Net8 OPEN

12-1 Network Products and Error Stack Components