OCI are type-2 driver that need oracle client to be installed. While
thin driver type-4 driver does not need Oracle client to be installed.
Since no client is required with thin driver, only classes.jar file is
need to be added to your class path, things are simple with oracle thin
drivers.

But OCI driver are faster than thin driver.

Manoj

Balasubramanian S wrote:

> You can try using the Oracle thin driver for web apps.
>
> -Bala
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> Can you suggest me that which one is the best driver for web-based (servlet/jsp) java applications with Oracle DB (either Oracle OCI or Oracle Thin driver) ?
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> Velmurugan P
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