3.6. Application Development
This section presents a quick introduction into programming applications with eXist. We first look at the XML:DB API, which is mainly of interest to Java developers. To those who prefer other programming languages, eXist offers SOAP and XML-RPC interfaces. A small SOAP example using .NET and C# is provided later in this section. Finally, we will see how eXist integrates with Apache's Cocoon.
Due to space restrictions, the examples are simple. The distribution contains more complex examples for each of the APIs discussed here.
3.6.1. Programming Java Applications with the XML:DB API
The preferred way to access eXist from Java applications is to use the XML:DB API. The XML:DB API provides a common interface to native ...
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