Preface

This guide describes how to use Oracle Multimedia, which ships with Oracle Database. It describes the management and integration of audio, image, and video, or other heterogeneous media data with other Oracle tools and software, and with third-party tools and software.

In Oracle Database 11g Release 1 (11.1), the name Oracle interMedia was changed to Oracle Multimedia. The feature remains the same, only the name has changed. References to Oracle interMedia were replaced with Oracle Multimedia although, some references to Oracle interMedia or interMedia might still appear in graphical user interfaces, code examples, and related documents in the Documentation Library for Oracle Database 11g Release 2 (11.2).

The sample code in this guide might not match the code shipped with Oracle Database Examples media. To run examples that are shipped with Oracle Database Examples media on your system, use the files provided with Oracle Database Examples media. Do not attempt to compile and run the code in this guide.

See Oracle Database New Features Guide for information about Oracle Database and the features and options that are available to you.

Audience

This guide is for application developers and database administrators who are interested in storing, retrieving, and manipulating audio, image, video, and heterogeneous media data in a database, including developers of audio, heterogeneous media data, image, and video specialization options. After familiarizing yourself with the concepts presented in this guide, consult Oracle Multimedia Reference for API information.

Documentation Accessibility

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Accessibility of Code Examples in Documentation

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Related Documents

For more information about using Oracle Multimedia in a development environment, see the following documents in the Oracle Database Online Documentation Library:

• Oracle Multimedia Reference

• Oracle Multimedia DICOM Developer's Guide

• Oracle Call Interface Programmer's Guide

• Oracle Database Advanced Application Developer's Guide

• Oracle Database SecureFiles and Large Objects Developer's Guide

• Oracle Database Concepts

• Oracle Database PL/SQL Language Reference

• Oracle Database Java Developer's Guide

• Oracle Database Error Messages

For more information about using JDBC, see Oracle Database JDBC Developer's Guide.

For more information about using XML, see Oracle XML DB Developer's Guide.

For reference information about Oracle Multimedia Java classes in Javadoc format, see the following Oracle API documentation (also known as Javadoc) in the Oracle Database Online Documentation Library:

• Oracle Multimedia Java API Reference

• Oracle Multimedia Servlets and JSP Java API Reference

• Oracle Multimedia DICOM Java API Reference

• Oracle Multimedia Mid-Tier Java API Reference

For information about using the Oracle Multimedia JSP Tag Library, see Oracle Multimedia JSP Tag Library Guide in the Oracle Multimedia Software section of the Oracle Technology Network Web site.

For more information about Java, including information about Java Advanced Imaging (JAI), see the API documentation provided by Oracle.

Many of the examples in this guide use the sample schemas. See Oracle Database Sample Schemas for information about how these schemas were created and how you can use them.

Conventions

Although Boolean is a proper noun, it is presented as boolean in this guide when its use in Java code requires case-sensitivity.

The following text conventions are also used in this guide: