listener

[tushar jayawant]

Hi to all

I'am new to the Oracle.Can u plz explain me what is Listener in Oracle
i.e what they do..


Thankx in advance
Tushar

[Jeanne Boyarsky]

Tushar,
The Oracle listener, listens for connection requests from clients wanting to access the database. It is also known as the Oracle Net Listener.

[Mark Spritzler]

It also spawns off server threads/process for the client. What I mean is that it listens for clients, when a client calls asking for a connection, the listener spawns off a thread to work for the client, now all calls from the client now go through their server process.

Mark