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Real-world Apache Derby, Part 3: Portable document storage

Store, search, and extract ODF documents using Derby and IBM DB2, Version 9

Dave Warner (david.warner@ngc.com), Senior Database Administrator, Northrop Grumman IT Solutions
Dave Warner has been working with databases since the early 1980s, focusing on business productivity and analysis. A Sun Certified Java Programmer, he's also certified in Microsoft SQL Server and works with Sybase tools extensively. He was formerly a chief technology officer at a small medical software company and presently works at Northrop Grumman IT Solutions as a senior database administrator.

Summary:  Document storage is hot, hot, hot! There has been an explosion of methodologies and tool sets -- both open source and proprietary -- to fulfill the demand for quickly locating and searching documents. Enabling technologies like Alfresco, Sharepoint, or my favorite, TWiki, are powerful, but they have a fairly high learning curve -- or worse, store the documents in a proprietary format. There must be an easier way. Let's take Derby and mash it with a new feature in OpenOffice 2.0, the Open Document Format (ODF). Using these tools, you can create a repository that lets you store, search, and extract ODF documents in a standards-based manner. Also learn to use the power of the improved XML features of IBM® DB2®, Version 9 to make this solution easier to implement.

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Date:  06 Feb 2007
Level:  Intermediate
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About this series

Apache Derby is no longer waiting in the wings -- it has taken center stage as a mature, robust database that can be used almost anywhere. This series of tutorials is for developers or expert users who want to explore the future of data storage. On this journey, expect to combine Derby with other standard tools (both user and developer) to create solutions that solve problems you face every day: ad hoc analysis, document storage, and that newest bugbear, compliance.

About this tutorial

This tutorial provides a survey of techniques that enable document storage and search. You'll:

  • Gain an understanding of what it takes to load, parse, and search an ODF text document created with OpenOffice.org 2.0.
  • Compare the less-sophisticated Derby database and DB2, Version 9.1, the technologically advanced XML storage engine.
  • Learn how to install, configure, and use the powerful IBM DB2 Developer Workbench, based on the Eclipse software development kit (SDK).

Objectives

Discover how to manipulate ODF documents using Java™ frameworks shipped with the Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition (J2SE) Development Kit (JDK), such as java.util.zip and Java Architecture for XML Binding (JAXB), along with techniques for handling Binary Large Object (BLOB) data on disk and in the Derby database.

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Prerequisites

You should be reasonably comfortable with standard Java tools and have a smattering of SQL experience. The ability to install and configure a Java Virtual Machine (JVM), Apache Ant or Eclipse, and Derby is required.

System requirements

To run the examples in this tutorial, you need the following:

  • JVM
  • 100-200 MB of free space, depending on your choice of tool set
  • At least 64MB of RAM for your virtual machine (VM)

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