Transferring files using the Oracle server

in Oracle 10G you can transport files over SQLNet and let the database manage the filetransfer. with this new feature, its possible to copy files on the local host and to put and get files from and to remote databases (transferring between databases). Source and target directories (as Oracle objects) has to exist and you use them with the filename as actual parameters for the plsql packe DBMS_FILE_TRANSFER to do the job.