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I thought it was one of those DBMS_* libraries (Score:1)

by runrig (3385)

...but I was wrong. But there's always google [google.com]. Looks like there's no good direct way, but here's the best answer I could find [experts-exchange.com] (summary: Java, DBMS_PIPE w/a daemon, or compile something into a shared library).
used two of those.. (Score:1)

by tinman (2063)

Here's what I've found, so far (havent tried any of this on 9i, so no idea if things are different)
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