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I am developing an iphone application and need to access Oracle/SQL database that installed on a server, and I dont want to develop a web service to read/write data, is there any other way to access the database?
Connecting to a remote DB directly from an iPhone/iPad App is a very bad idea. Imagine someone with a jailbroken iPhone and a simple packet sniffer…. It would be incredibly easy to compromise the security of your Database.
The best way to acomplish this is to wrap it in php via a web server on your remote Database server. You can then run a query on the DB with a simple http POST request and have the page return xml/json/whatever.
You could look through CocoaMySQL-src for some other ideas though. I think the project is dead/no longer active, but the code might still be useful.