Java API/dbms_aw_xml Package

Question

Hello,
can somebody tell me the coherences between the Java API and the dbms_aw_xml Package? I Know that the dbms_aw_xml Package is a set of the Java API, with this Package I can create Java Code for creating an Analytic Workspace. But how can i create a XML file? In the dokumentations they speak therefrom but I don't know how.

Answer 1

The olap_api.jar is the Java API that enables you to query Standard Form cubes. The awxml.jar file is the Java API that enables you to create Standard Form cubes. When you are writing Java code to use the awxml.jar library you initially create an AW class. Once you finish adding Dimensions and Cubes to your AW you can output the XML to a file. See code
String XML = globalAW.WriteToXML();
try
File xmlFile = new File("Your file name here.xml");
FileWriter xmlout = new FileWriter(xmlFile);
xmlout.write(XML);
xmlout.write("\n");
xmlout.close();
catch (Exception e)
System.out.println("Failure to write XML string to file: " +
e.toString());
// Build the analytic workspace framework.
System.out.println("Building the " + aw.getName() + " framework.");
globalAW.Create(awConnection);
globalAW.Commit(awConnection);
System.out.println(aw.getName() + " framework built!");
Hope this helped.