Why so much code getting data out of DB & into web services

Question

I am new to Java and I am experimenting with web services.
I am trying to get data out of a database and into a web service
This is the code I had to build just to get a little bit of data out of a DB and into a web service.
// Open a database connection and statement.
Class.forName("COM.ibm.db2.jdbc.app.DB2Driver").newInstance();
Connection dbConn = DriverManager.getConnection("jdbc:db2:sample","myuser","mypass");
Statement statement = dbConn.createStatement();
// Build the message.
SOAPMessageContext ctx = (SOAPMessageContext) messageContext;
try {
MessageFactory messageFactory = MessageFactory.newInstance();
SOAPMessage m = messageFactory.createMessage();
SOAPEnvelope env = m.getSOAPPart().getEnvelope();
SOAPBody body = env.getBody();
SOAPElement elem =
body.addBodyElement(env.createName("ns1:getEmployees"));
elem.addNamespaceDeclaration("ns1",
"http://www.abc.com/SampleApplication/Employee.wsdl");
elem.addNamespaceDeclaration("ns2",
"http://www.abc.com/SampleApplication/Employee.xsd");
SOAPElement elem1 = new SOAPElementImpl("Response", null, null);
// Execute the query.
String sql = "SELECT EMPNO, FIRSTNME, MIDINIT, LASTNAME, HIREDATE FROM EMPLOYEE";
ResultSet result = statement.executeQuery(sql);
Isn't there a way with less code to get data out and stick into a web service?

Answer 1

I left the part of the code out that is bugging me - I was talking about all of the code to get the data into XML..
here's the whole code..
// Open a database connection and statement.
Class.forName("COM.ibm.db2.jdbc.app.DB2Driver").newInstance();
Connection dbConn = DriverManager.getConnection("jdbc:db2:sample","myuser","mypass");
Statement statement = dbConn.createStatement();
// Build the message.
SOAPMessageContext ctx = (SOAPMessageContext) messageContext;
try {
MessageFactory messageFactory = MessageFactory.newInstance();
SOAPMessage m = messageFactory.createMessage();
SOAPEnvelope env = m.getSOAPPart().getEnvelope();
SOAPBody body = env.getBody();
SOAPElement elem =
body.addBodyElement(env.createName("ns1:getEmployees"));
elem.addNamespaceDeclaration("ns1",
"http://www.abc.com/SampleApplication/Employee.wsdl");
elem.addNamespaceDeclaration("ns2",
"http://www.abc.com/SampleApplication/Employee.xsd");
SOAPElement elem1 = new SOAPElementImpl("Response", null, null);
// Execute the query.
String sql = "SELECT EMPNO, FIRSTNME, MIDINIT, LASTNAME, HIREDATE FROM EMPLOYEE";
ResultSet result = statement.executeQuery(sql);
SOAPElement employee = new SOAPElementImpl("Employees", "ns2", "http://www.abc.com/SampleApplication/Employee.xsd");
employee.addChildElement("ns2:EMPNO").addTextNode(result.getString("EMPNO"));
employee.addChildElement("ns2:FIRSTNME").addTextNode(result.getString("FIRSTNME"));
employee.addChildElement("ns2:FIRSTNME").addTextNode(result.getString("MIDINIT"));
employee.addChildElement("ns2:LASTNAME").addTextNode(result.getString("LASTNAME"));
employee.addChildElement("ns2:FIRSTNME").addTextNode(result.getString("HIREDATE"));
elem1.addChildElement(employee);
elem.addChildElement(elem1);
ctx.setMessage(m);
dbConn.close();
} catch (Throwable e) {
weblogic.utils.Debug.say("(hbs):e " + e);
e.printStackTrace(System.out);
putting the data in the node seems excessive to me.
thanks
AP