2. New Features in OpenLink UDA

Abstract

The following are new features in the Universal Data Access Suite version 6.0:

Oracle:

Real Application Cluster (RAC) Support

Connection-Pooling

Direct Connectivity to Oracle without Net8|9|10 or SQL*Net (Single Tier Drivers)
Ingres / OpenIngres:
- Ingres Native ADO.Net Provider
Generic, cross-database features:
- Distributed Transaction Support
- PAM, LDAP & Active Directory support
- Support for XML Types

The following are new features of the Universal Data Access Suite version 5.2:

64-bit ODBC Drivers for Windows, Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, Tru64 Linux, IRIX across Itanium, Opteron, PA-RISC, IBM Risc, and PowerPC processors
Addition of SSL support to the existing data encryption functionality in our Multi-Tier Drivers
New ADO.NET managed providers for all supported databases
New ODBC.NET provider that facilitates compatability between ADO.NET clients and third-party ODBC Drivers
Enhanced ODBC-JDBC Bridge Driver that provides JDBC connectivity to any ODBC or ADO.NET client application
JDBC-to-ODBC Bridge Driver that provides ODBC connectivity to Java Application
A compatibility layer for Microsoft InfoPath that provides connectivity to non SQL Server and ACCESS databases via ODBC
JDBC 3.0-compliant Drivers for version 1.5 of the Java Virtual Machine and SDK

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