Data Engine API?

I found some old doc about accessing a Data Engine API to use a data template to create the xml. Does this API still exist? I'm running Stand alone 10.1.3.4. The current guide makes no mention of it. If it is no longer applicable, how can we access a data template from the command line to generate XML?

Hi,
have a look here: http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E12844_01/doc/bip.1013/e12693/toc.htm
There click on oracle.apps.xdo.dataengine
Regards
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a) I created a java class (using Jdev Version 11.1.1.0.0)
package oracle.apps.XMLPublisher.client;
import com.sun.java.util.collections.Hashtable;
import java.sql.Connection;
import java.sql.DriverManager;
import java.sql.ResultSet;
import java.sql.SQLException;
import java.sql.Statement;
import oracle.apps.xdo.XDOException;
import oracle.apps.xdo.dataengine.DataProcessor;
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parameters = new Hashtable();
parameters.put("P_LEGAL_ENTITY_ID", "3259");
parameters.put("P_TRU_ID", "3262");
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// wish to execute the template against.
// This sample assumes you have already created
// the connection object 'jdbcConnection'
Class.forName("oracle.jdbc.OracleDriver");
String url =
"jdbc:oracle:thin:@ap6005sdb.us.oracle.com:1526:hremeadv";
Connection jdbcConnection;
jdbcConnection= DriverManager.getConnection(url, "apps", "*****");
dataProcessor.setConnection(jdbcConnection);
System.out.println("Here1");
// Specify the output directory and file for the data file
dataProcessor.setOutput("BilanSocial.xml");
System.out.println("Here2");
dataProcessor.processData();
System.out.println("Here3");
} catch (SQLException e) {
System.out.println("SQLException " + e.getMessage());
} catch (XDOException e) {
System.out.println("XDOException" + e.getMessage());
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Exception {
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<parameters>
<parameter name="P_LEGAL_ENTITY_ID" dataType = "number"></parameter>
<parameter name="P_TRU_ID" dataType = "number"></parameter>
<parameter name="P_YEAR" dataType = "number"></parameter>
</parameters>
<lexicals>
</lexicals>
<dataQuery>
<sqlStatement name="Q_INDICATORS">
<![CDATA[ SELECT pai.action_information3   YEAR,
                pai.action_information17 INDICATOR_VALUE
          FROM   pay_action_information pai
         WHERE pai.action_information_category     = 'HR_FR_BS'
            AND    pai.action_context_type             = 'PA'
            AND    pai.action_information1             = :P_LEGAL_ENTITY_ID
            AND    pai.action_information2             = :P_TRU_ID
            AND    pai.action_information3            = :P_YEAR
]]>
</sqlStatement>
</dataQuery>
<dataStructure>
<group name="G_YEARS" dataType="varchar2" source="Q_INDICATORS">
<element name="YEAR" dataType="varchar2" value="YEAR"/>
<element name="INDICATOR_VALUE" dataType="number" value="INDICATOR_VALUE"/>
</group>
</dataStructure>
</dataTemplate>
---> But when I run it , it fails when calling the data processor with the following error
D:\Jdeveloper11g\jdk\bin\javaw.exe -client -classpath "D:\Jdeveloper11g\jdevhome\XMLPublisher\src\Client\classes;D:\BI publisher\XMLP562_WIN\XMLP562_WIN\manual\lib\versioninfo.jar;D:\BI publisher\XMLP562_WIN\XMLP562_WIN\manual\lib\xdocore.jar;D:\BI publisher\XMLP562_WIN\XMLP562_WIN\manual\lib\collections.jar;D:\BI publisher\XMLP562_WIN\XMLP562_WIN\manual\lib\xmlparserv2-904.jar;D:\BI publisher\XMLP562_WIN\XMLP562_WIN\manual\lib\i18nAPI_v3.jar;D:\Jdeveloper11g\jdbc\lib\ojdbc14dms.jar;D:\Jdeveloper11g\jlib\orai18n.jar;D:\Jdeveloper11g\diagnostics\lib\ojdl.jar;D:\Jdeveloper11g\jlib\dms.jar" -Dhttp.proxyHost=emeacache.uk.oracle.com -Dhttp.proxyPort=80 -Dhttp.nonProxyHosts= -Dhttps.proxyHost=emeacache.uk.oracle.com -Dhttps.proxyPort=80 -Dhttps.nonProxyHosts= oracle.apps.XMLPublisher.client.XMLFileGenerator
Here1
Here2
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.IllegalAccessError: tried to access class oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleStatement from class oracle.apps.xdo.dataengine.DBConnection
     at oracle.apps.xdo.dataengine.DBConnection.setRowPrefetchSize(DBConnection.java:42)
     at oracle.apps.xdo.dataengine.XMLPGEN.setRowPrefetchSize(XMLPGEN.java:1224)
     at oracle.apps.xdo.dataengine.XMLPGEN.writeData(XMLPGEN.java:420)
     at oracle.apps.xdo.dataengine.XMLPGEN.writeGroupStructure(XMLPGEN.java:281)
     at oracle.apps.xdo.dataengine.XMLPGEN.processData(XMLPGEN.java:251)
     at oracle.apps.xdo.dataengine.XMLPGEN.processXML(XMLPGEN.java:192)
     at oracle.apps.xdo.dataengine.XMLPGEN.writeXML(XMLPGEN.java:222)
     at oracle.apps.xdo.dataengine.DataProcessor.processData(DataProcessor.java:334)
     at oracle.apps.XMLPublisher.client.XMLFileGenerator.dataEngine(XMLFileGenerator.java:50)
     at oracle.apps.XMLPublisher.client.XMLFileGenerator.main(XMLFileGenerator.java:62)
Process exited with exit code 1.
Thanks by advance for your help

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