With the acquisition of GoldenGate, Oracle 11gR2 incorporates GoldenGate XSTREAMS technology providing client applications with the ability to insert and extract LCR datatypes directly into an implicit or explicit Stream.

The following lists views that supply helpful information for XSTREAMS:

XTREAMS is built on Oracle Streams infrastructure and thus can take advantage of Oracle Streams' functionality and flexibility.

The Oracle database is configured to support XSTREAMS using the DBMS_XSTREAMS_ADM package subprograms. Specialized server processes are configured to handle inbound and outbound traffic to standard Oracle Streams queues. Outbound server processes can be created to dequeue from an existing Streams queue, or its own queue. Inbound server processes are created with their own Streams queue which can then be configured for use via normal Streams apply rule creation. These server processes are accessed via the OCI or Java API function interfaces.

XSTREAMS provides the ability to share information across a heterogeneous environment with excellent flexibility, usability, and performance. This functionality can be used as an alternative to replicating with Oracle Heterogeneous Gateways, and Java Messaging Service(JMS) clients.