Part II
OCI Object Concepts

This part of the book contains chapters that describe the use of Oracle8 objects with the OCI:

Chapter 8, "OCI Object-Relational Programming", provides an introduction to object concepts and object-relational programming with the OCI.
Chapter 9, "Object-Relational Datatypes", discusses object datatypes and how you can represent database objects as C structures. This chapter also describes OCI functions that map and manipulate datatypes.
Chapter 10, "Binding and Defining in Object Applications", covers binding and defining object-relational datatypes.
Chapter 11, "Object Cache and Object Navigation", describes the object cache and how to navigate between objects.
Chapter 12, "Using the Object Type Translator", discusses how the OTT is used to convert database type definitions into host language representations.
Note: The functionality described in this part of the book is only available if you have purchased the Oracle8 Enterprise Edition with the Objects Option.