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Render PDF apps using DB2 SQL/XML functions

Naveen Balani, Developer, developerWorks
Naveen Balani spends most of his time designing and developing J2EE-based products. He has written various articles for IBM in the past covering topics such as service-oriented architecture (SOA), Web Services, Customer Information Control System (CICS), Java Message Service (JMS), IBM MQSeries middleware, IBM WebSphere Studio development tools, Java Wireless Devices, DB2 Everyplace for Palm, Java-Nokia, Microsoft.NET software technologies, J2ME programming technology, and wireless data synchronization. You can reach him at naveenbalani@rediffmail.com.
(An IBM developerWorks Master Author, Level 3)

Summary:  This tutorial shows developers how to render PDF applications using DB2 SQL/XML functions, WebSphere Studio Application Developer, and Apache FOP Project.

Date:  02 Sep 2004
Level:  Introductory
PDF:  A4 and Letter (31 KB | 11 pages)Get Adobe® Reader®

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Overview

This tutorial shows developers how to render PDF applications using DB2 SQL/XML functions, WebSphere Studio Application Developer (Application Developer), and the Apache Formatting Objects Processor (FOP) project.

The tutorial shows you how to build a sample Web-based bank application using Application Developer, which will render a PDF document on the fly using DB2's SQL/XML features. The user's account information, which was entered by the user previously, will be generated in PDF format on the fly. We also go through the process of constructing SQL/XML statements and setting up the Application Developer environment for deploying and testing the application.

In part two of this tutorial, you will render the same PDF application using DB2 XML Extender.

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Prerequisites

The developers must have prior knowledge of SQL, XSLT, J2EE applications, and Apache FOP classes.

Software requirements:

  • Windows 2000
  • DB2 Universal Database 8.1 or above
  • WebSphere Studio Application Developer 5.1.1 or above
  • Apache FOP from http://xml.apache.org/fop.

This tutorial assumes that the above software is already installed and configured.

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