What's New in Oracle C++ Call lnterface?

This section describes new features in Oracle C++ Call Interface Programmer's Guide and supplies pointers to additional information.

New Features for 10g Release 1 (10.1)

The following features are new to this release:

• OCCI Support for Windows NT for accessing collections of Refs in ResultSet Class and Statement Class, in Chapter 10, " OCCI Application Programming Interface"

• This release provides OCCI libraries for Microsoft CRT debugging and for developing applications with Microsoft Visual C++ 7.0 (.NET). Please see the Windows platform Readme for details on supported compiler versions.

• NATIVE DOUBLE Datatype in Chapter 4, " Datatypes" supports IEEE754Double

• NATIVE FLOAT Datatype in Chapter 4, " Datatypes" supports IEEE754Float

• Instant Client Feature in Chapter 1, " Introduction to OCCI"

• Enhancements in the base PObject Class in Chapter 6, " Object Type Translator Utility"; OTT C++ classes must be re-generated after migrating to this release

• Stateless Connection Pooling and StatelessConnectionPool Class

• Globalization and Unicode support in the new Chapter 7, " Globalization and Unicode Support"

• Oracle Streams Advanced Queuing in the new Chapter 8, " Oracle Streams Advanced Queuing "

• XA Compliance support in the new Chapter 9, " Oracle XA Library "

• "Statement Caching" in Chapter 2, " Relational Programming "

• Array Pinning for Objects: Section "Persistent Objects" in Chapter 3, " Object Programming ".

• Section "Migrating C++ Applications Using OCCI" in Chapter 3, " Object Programming "

• Timestamp Class in Chapter 10, " OCCI Application Programming Interface"behavior is enhanced:

  • Users no longer need to convert to GMT when using Timestamp() constructor, or in methods setDate() and setTime()

  • New constructors that support timezone information as string or UString(Unicode) enable users to pass a region name, such as "US/Eastern", as a timezone. These provide daylight savings(DST) support. Using an empty string, "", constructs a timestamp in the local timezone.

  • New support for all three TIMESTAMP types in the database, for both relational and objects access: TIMESTAMP, TIMESTAMP WITH TIME ZONE and TIMESTAMP WITH LOCAL TIME ZONE.