Deleting Archive Logs Programiatcially

Hi,

We are building an application that uses Logminer to replicate data from one database to another. Logminer, as you likely know, makes use of archivelogs. Once done with archivelog we need to delete these. It seems the way to do this is Oracle Recovery Manager but the idea of creating a shell to interface with Oracle Recovery Manager is less than desirable.

Is there a better way than what I described above, is there an API or similar for managing these archive log files?

Thanks in advance.