Yes. DataDirect XQuery™ 3.0 supports updates to relational database tables from inside an XQuery by providing three built-in functions. These functions are: ddtek:sql-insert, ddtek:sql-update, ddtek:sql-delete.

There are several models for licensing DataDirect XQuery™ 3.0 and they vary between corporate and OEM customers. Please contact your DataDirect account representative at 1 (800) 477-6473 x4488 or (781) 280-4488 to discuss which model fits best for your environment.

Yes, our OEM account managers offer a number of licensing options. Visit the DataDirect OEM Agreements site for more information. XQuery is one of the hottest XML technologies being developed today. After you purchase DataDirect XQuery™ 3.0, stay informed with vital news about standards, tools, and trends by signing up for the DataDirect XQuery™ 3.0 newsletter.

DataDirect XQueryâ?¢ is an implementation of XQuery that can query XML, relational data, SOAP messages, EDI, or a combination of data sources. It provides the fastest, most reliable and scalable XQuery support for all major relational databases and runs on any J2SE 1.4 or higher Java platform. DataDirect XQuery supports the XQuery API for Java (XQJ), and is easily embeddable into any Java program. It does not require any other product or application server, and has no server of its own.

Information about DataDirect XQuery™ 3.0 can be found at http://www.datadirect.com/products/xquery/index.ssp. XQuery is one of the hottest XML technologies being developed today. Stay informed with vital news about standards, tools, and trends by signing up for the DataDirect XQuery™ 3.0 newsletter. Put the power, scalability, and performance of DataDirect XQuery™ 3.

Yes, a developer version is available should you need more time to work on your proof of concept than the evaluation license provides.

DataDirect XQuery™ 3.0 embeds Saxon. It is used by DataDirect XQuery™ 3.0 to query XML documents. If you want to query and integrate both XML and relational data, DataDirect XQuery™ 3.0 provides substantial benefits in performance over a free implementation such as Saxon: DataDirect XQuery™ 3.0 provides support for all major databases on any platform. In contrast, Saxon only has minimal support for data stored in relational databases. DataDirect XQuery™ 3.

Configuring DataDirect XQuery™ 3.0 for your environment is straightforward. Once installed, you configure a source configuration file to specify the connection information for XML and relational data sources that are used by XQuery queries. To make this configuration easy, DataDirect XQuery™ 3.0 ships with an example source configuration file for each database that the product supports, so you can start with one of these example files and modify the values as needed.

Yes, contact your DataDirect account representative at 1 (800) 477-6473 x4488 or (781) 280-4488 for pricing that includes both products.

DataDirect XQuery™ 3.0 is ideal for any company that needs to access and integrate data stored in XML and relational sources. Unlike other XQuery products, DataDirect XQuery™ 3.0 provides the following benefits: DataDirect XQuery™ 3.0 provides good performance when querying relational databases because it allows the XQuery query to be executed as efficiently as possible (decomposing the query into SQL statements) and moving out of the database just the minimum amount of data.

Yes. DataDirect XQuery™ 3.0 does not require its own server infrastructure, which makes it easy to embed into other commercial applications.

DataDirect XQuery™ 3.0 is implemented in Java and runs on any J2SE 1.4 or higher Java platform.

DB2 V5R4 iSeries, and DB2 v9.1. For DB2 v9.1, DataDirect XQuery supports the XML enhancements of the database including the XML data type and native XQuery implementation â?" allowing you to directly execute XQuery expressions.

XML text files/streams. These files/streams can be accessed using fn:doc( ), which supports the http:, ftp:, and file:URI schemes and DataDirect XML Converters™ 3.0 URI's. let $request := doc('file:///c:/request.xml')/request ... Here is an example of a DataDirect XML Converters™ 3.0 URI scheme in which the name of the Adapter is Base64, the properties set for the conversion are newline and encoding, and the file to convert is base_to_xml.

Java applications use the XQuery for Java API (XQJ) to execute XQuery, which is analogous to using the JDBC API to execute SQL statements. The following sample Java code illustrates the basic steps that an application would perform to execute an XQuery expression using DataDirect XQuery™ 3.0. ... // import the XQJ classes import com.ddtek.xquery.*; import com.ddtek.xquery.xqj.mediator.DDXQDataSource; // establish a connection to a data source DDXQDataSource ds = new DDXQDataSource(); ds.

XQuery updates are still in the planning stage. Using a combination of DataDirect XQuery and JDBC offers a simple solution to working with both XML and relational data, and providing updates to relational data. See http://www.datadirect.com/developer/xquery/xquery_updates/index.ssp for more information.

Yes, a developer version is available should you need more time to work on your proof of concept than the evaluation license provides. Contact your DataDirect account representative at 1 (800) 477-6473 x4488 or (781) 280-4488 for more information.

DataDirect XML Converters™ 3.0 are high-performance Javaâ?¢ and .NET components that provide bi-directional, programmatic access to virtually any non-XML file including EDI (EDIFACT, X12, EANCOM, IATA), flat files, and other legacy formats. DataDirect XML Converters™ 3.0 allow developers to seamlessly stream any non-XML data as XML to industry-leading XML processing components (including DataDirect XQuery) or to any application.

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DataDirect XML Converters™ 3.0 can be licensed through a workstation or a server based licensing metric (model). Check out our Help Me Choose page to learn more about the difference between the two models. Please contact your DataDirect account representative at 1 (800) 477-6473 x4488 or (781) 280-4488 to discuss which one fits best with your environment.

Yes, our OEM account managers offer a number of licensing options. Visit the DataDirect OEM Agreements site for more information or contact your DataDirect account representative at 1 (800) 477-6473 x4488 or (781) 280-4488. Put the power, scalability, and performance of DataDirect XML Converters™ 3.

All built-in converters are bidirectional. For example, the EDI converter supports both EDI to XML and also XML to EDI — you can read and write to your non-XML files. Custom converters defined using Stylus Studio Enterprise Suite are XML to non-XML only.

In Java or Microsoft .NET, files and resources are referred to using URI's. The basic URI resolvers that are included with Java or .NET are capable of resolving file:, http:, ftp:, and a few other protocols. DataDirect XML Converters™ 3.0 extend the ability of the default URI resolvers to understand a new file scheme, converter:, that can be used to convert non-XML files into XML on the fly and vice-versa.

DataDirect XML Converters™ 3.0 use streaming XML technology, which means that rather then reading the entire file into memory and generating the whole result into memory, the data is parsed by a streaming component and in turn streamed to the downstream processing component as it goes, resulting in far greater performance and throughput. DataDirect XML Converters™ 3.0 in conjunction with DataDirect XQuery provide the ultimate solution in terms of high scalability and performance.

DataDirect XML Converters™ 3.0 offer a productive, scalable and easily embeddable data conversion solution which leverages your existing Java or .NET applications and/or industry leading XML processing components. Overall, you'll find that this approach is far more cost-effective then alternative approaches.

Downlaoding a free trial is really easy. Simply go to our download page and fill out the short information form. Then click on the "submit" button. From there, you'll be able to download your free 15 day trial of DataDirect XML Converters™ 3.0. See our download page or contact one of our sales representatives at (781) 280-4488 for more information.

To make your purchasing process quick and easy, we suggest ordering from our online store or by contacting one of our sales representatives at (781) 280-4488. Put the power, scalability, and performance of DataDirect XML Converters™ 3.

The current, standardized version of SPARQL deals only with retrieving selected data from RDF graphs. There is no equivalent of the SQL INSERT, UPDATE, or DELETE statements. Most RDF-based applications handle new, changing, and stale data directly via the APIs provided by specific RDF storage systems. Alternatively, RDF data can exist virtually (i.e. created on-demand in response to a SPARQL query).

Yes, TopLink Essentials through the pluggable persistence capabilities will function as the persistence provider in an compliant EJB 3.0 container.