Developing data access applications

The workbench provides the tools you need to develop data access applications, with which you can manipulate data from outside sources for use within your application serving environment. These enterprise data stores might be relational databases, procedural transaction programs, or object-oriented databases.

By using the wizards and views in the relational database tools, you can define and work with databases; define and work with tables, views, and filters; create and work with SQL statements; create and work with DB2 routines (such as DB2 stored procedures and user-defined functions), and create and work with SQLJ files. You can also generate SQL DDL and XML files.

Overview

You can read the following topics before creating a data access application. They provide planning and technology overview information that may be useful if you are new to data access or developing data access in this development environment.

Conceptual information iconDeveloping data access applications

Getting started

If you are already familiar with data access technology the following topics will help you set up your workspace for data access application development, and guide you through the development process.

Task information iconData Project Explorer
Task information iconCreating data models

Web resources for learning

In addition to the information found in this information center, the following links provide additional learning material.

IBM® Redbooks®: Rational® Application Developer V7 Programming Guide


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