Data base Access

Question

Hi
I am developing a PDK (java) application
From my application i need to get data from .Net system
What are all the possible ways to access data from .Net System
Thanks
Rudra

Answer 1

When you say .NET System what do you mean? Is that an MS SQL Server, a Sharepoint portal, other .NET system....?
There are many ways to access database.
In my opinion the most recommended one is using EJB or Hibernate because that gives you real MVC seperation, but it will be a bit difficult to implement in a PDK application.
The quickest way will be using JDBC: Either configure the connection on the app server and access it's alias using the Initial context object or create the JDBC connection in your code but I highly recommend configuring it on the app server.
Once configured, you can use something like that to access the object:
InitialContext ctx = new InitialContext();
DataSource ds = (DataSource) ctx.lookup(<YOUR_ALIAS>);
Connection conn = ds.getConnbection();
Hope it helps,
Roy