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Push the limits of Java UDRs in Informix Dynamic Server V10

Extend IDS features with Java

Halit (Hal) M. Maner (hmaner@msystemsintl.com), Chief Technology Officer, M Systems International, Inc.
Halit (Hal) Maner is the President and Chief Technology Officer of M Systems International, Inc., a solutions developer based in the Research Triangle Park in North Carolina, USA. M Systems specializes in database application development and support, database administration, and network administration in the Windows, Unix, and Linux platforms. Hal is certified in Informix, DB2, and Microsoft SQL Server databases. He has a Bachelor's of Science in Automatic Control and Computer Engineering as well as an MBA, plus 22 years of experience as a programmer, DBA, software architect, and team leader.
Jean Georges Perrin (jgp@jgp.net), Director, IIUG
Jean Georges Perrin has been involved in software engineering for the last decade, using many development languages ranging from Informix-4GL to Java, through Visual Basic, C, C++ and PHP. Jean Georges has been working on the Web and related technologies since 1994. He has been elected to the Board of Directors of IIUG since 2002. He headed various R&D and project lead positions and lives near Strasbourg, France, with his wife and two sons.

Summary:  Learn how to write server side Java™ code in the form of a User Defined Routine (UDR), running inside the Informix® Dynamic Server (IDS). Also, learn how to set up your project using modern tools such as Eclipse.

Date:  05 Oct 2006
Level:  Intermediate
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Introduction

Although IDS is one of the best general purpose and online transaction processing (OLTP) databases out there, you may need to extend its function set. IDS provides a very open interface for doing so: UDRs. UDRs can be developed in Java, making portability a non-issue, helping you benefit from your existing Java knowledge and letting you reuse libraries and components already available in your applications.

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In this tutorial, you first discover the fundamentals then directly jump to a real-life example. You also call your Java UDR from an Informix 4GL application. You then see how you can include this example into Eclipse, the famous development environment. Finally, you study the deployment strategy to use your UDR in production.

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Prerequisites

It is assumed that you have development experience with IDS. No Java or Informix 4GL background is required.

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System requirements

In this tutorial,you will use the following:

  • IDS V10.0.TC4
  • J2SE Development Kit (JDK) V5.0 (update 6)
  • and Eclipse V3.2 RC7

This example uses Windows XP, but the examples are easily portable to Linux or any other UNIX system.

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