Okay, we all know you have to glue things together. I can't seem to get a straight answer at work, so I thought I'd ask expert gluers: what's the simplest and most intelligent way to "shell out" of PL/SQL code? Note that I'm talking server-side stored PL/SQL code here; shelling out of SQL*Plus is useful but irrelevant for what I'm doing.
I highly suspect I'm not getting a straight answer because there's not one. If anyone's interested, I'll post how they're having me do it.
I thought it was one of those DBMS_* libraries (Score:1)
used two of those.. (Score:1)
Java: nice.. if you like coding java, this is by far the easiest method to do things.. but of course, its err... java (does my bias show yet ?), and Oracle only allows you to use a weird JVM called Aurora (not the standard JVM by Sun), so you may find some class libraries arent there.. Compatibility is with 1.1.8, I think)
Shared library: compile the C equivalent of what you want done into a shared object (or