Written by: ilmarkerm

Category: Blog entry

Published: May 17, 2012

Oracle Database has had the possibility to run Java code inside the database for a long time. It’s a very rare occasion when you need to use it but still. Here is one example I used to download content from HTTPS website that required user certificates for authentication. Please take the code below more as an example how to put simple Java code inside the database, not as a solution for user certificates authentication, because UTL_HTTP can do the same thing (although I wasn’t successful in implementing it under 11.2.0.2).

First, load the Java source into database. The code below shows:

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• How to execute SQL from Java, in the same calling session

Note that method main is just added for testing from command line.

Then you need to create a wrapper package in database. This declares the PL/SQL wrapper function names and input/output parameters.

Download the source: java_source.java and PL/SQL wrapper.sql.

When you first execute the code, you will most likely get some privilege errors, but the error message will tell you how to grant the needed privileges. For example, for this code the following grants were needed:

exec dbms_java.grant_permission( 'OWNER', 'SYS:java.util.PropertyPermission', 'javax.net.ssl.keyStore', 'write' );
exec dbms_java.grant_permission( 'OWNER', 'SYS:java.util.PropertyPermission', 'javax.net.ssl.trustStore', 'write' );
exec dbms_java.grant_permission( 'OWNER', 'SYS:java.util.PropertyPermission', 'javax.net.ssl.keyStorePassword', 'write' );
exec dbms_java.grant_permission( 'OWNER', 'SYS:java.net.SocketPermission', 'site.that.requires.user.cert', 'resolve' );
exec dbms_java.grant_permission( 'OWNER', 'SYS:java.net.SocketPermission', '1.2.3.4:443', 'connect,resolve' );