Quick Beginnings for Linux**

Developing Applications using the DB2 Application Development Client

The DB2 Application Development Client is a collection of tools that are designed to meet the needs of database application developers. It includes libraries, header files, documented APIs, and sample programs to build character-based, multimedia, or object-oriented applications.

A platform-specific version of the DB2 Application Development Client is available on each server CD-ROM. In addition the Developer Edition boxes contain the Application Development Clients for multiple supported operating systems. The Personal Developer's Edition box contains the Application Development CD-ROMs for OS/2, Windows and Linux. The Universal Developer's Edition box contains the Application Development CD-ROMs for all supported operating systems.

Through a DB2 client, these applications can access all servers and, by using the DB2 Connect product (or the DB2 Connect functionality supplied with DB2 Enterprise - Extended or DB2 Enterprise Edition), they can also access DB2 Universal Database for AS/400, DB2 Universal Database for OS/390, and DB2 for VSE & VM database servers.

The DB2 Application Development Client allows you to develop applications that use the following interfaces:

• Embedded SQL
• Call Level Interface (CLI) development environment (which is compatible with ODBC from Microsoft)
• Java Database Connectivity (JDBC)
• Embedded SQL for Java (SQLJ)
• DB2 Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) that use administrative functions to manage a DB2 database.

The DB2 Application Development Client includes:

• Precompilers for Java, C, C++, COBOL, and FORTRAN.
• Libraries, include files, and code samples to develop applications that use SQLJ and DB2 CLI.
• A single control point for metadata management through the use of templates and tokens.
• JDBC and SQLJ support to develop Java applications and applets.
• Interactive SQL, through the CLP, to prototype SQL statements and perform ad-hoc database queries.
• An API to enable other application development tools to implement precompiler support for DB2 directly with their products.
• An SQL92 and MVS Conformance Flagger to identify embedded SQL statements in applications not conforming to the ISO/ANSO SQL92 Entry Level standard, or which are not supported by DB2 for OS/390.

For complete information on the functionality of the DB2 Application Development Client, and instructions on how to use them, as well as a full list of supported compilers for your platform, refer to the Application Building Guide.