Hi Ross >The only demos I see there are just kind of vanilla "use JDBC" for =3D >loading stuff. I kept thinking Ethan was going for direct dbms data =3D >injection via library through EXTPROC (in "wrong" direction, of = course), =3D >without requiring=3D20 >JDBC. > >To do this, I guess you could dump a client-based *.doc via ftp into a = =3D >dbms-server based <directory> and have a db-internal process polling = for =3D >results in <directory> and formatting same appropriately (via EXTPROC = =3D >and library def) for storage. You get ability to asynchronously upload = =3D >stuff and format it into db mediated by EXTPROC > >This would obviate the use of JDBC to inject data in the db.=3D20 I didn't give a look to the link... anyway I know for sure that it's = possible to use a standard FTP client to load data in the DB (in fact I = do such a demo every time I teach either a 9i New Feature course or a = XDB course...). >(Of course, it IS very late) It depends where you are ;-) I'm sitting at 6:57AM... Cheers Chris -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l