SMILA/Documentation/XQJ Implementation

Summary

This page specifies the IT-Design and Guidelines for the XQJ (JSR-225) implementation furthermore referenced as Bdx – XQJ Implementation within this web page. The Bdx XQJ Implementation will make possible for final Java clients to use the XQJ API in order to access the Oracle Berkeley DB Xml (“embeddable XML database with XQuery based access to documents stored in containers and indexed based on their content”).

Bdx XQJ Implementation Overview

The architecture does interface data from Oracle Berkeley DB Xml to end Java clients based on the XQJ (JSR-225) specifications. The following picture outlines a simplified overview of the structure together with the focus for this document.

Bdx XQJ implementation provides part of the XQJ functionality, especially for the query support.

UML Class Diagrams

• XQJ (JSR-225) – class diagram

Fallowing two class diagrams represent the XQJ architecture as defined by the JSR-225 (http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=225)

• • XQJ Class Diagram 1

• • XQJ Class Diagram 2

Bdx XQJ Implementation

The following class diagram represents the current state of the Bdx XQJ implementation, considering as a basic priority the query functionality. Currently not all the XQJ interfaces (functionalities) have been implemented – only the necessary operations that provide query support.

Bdx XQJ Implementation – data type hierarchy

Bdx XQJ implementation provides its own type – value hierarchy for data representation. The type hierarchy is only internal used.

Currently not all the data types (values) have been implemented; just the necessary types in order to support the main querying operations for few basic XS data types.

Bdx XQJ Implementation characteristics

Package structure & nomenclature The base package of the Bdx XQJ Implementation is: org.eclipse.eilf.xmlstorage.internal.xquery.bdx. Most of the Bdx XQJ implementation sources follow the next naming format:

• for concrete implementation of XQJ interfaces: BdxXQNameImpl;
• for sources that support the basic XQJ implementation: BdxName
• there are also sources with only the concrete class name

The type – value hierarchy implementation sources follow the next naming format:

• sources representing types: XQTypeNameType, BdxNameType
• sources representing values: XQValueNameValue

Sub-packages details:

• org.eclipse.eilf.xmlstorage.internal.xquery.bdx: contains the implementation classes of the XQJ interfaces (javax.xml.xquery);
• org.eclipse.eilf.xmlstorage.internal.xquery.bdx.bind: provides the external binding that allows client code to bind variables;
• org.eclipse.eilf.xmlstorage.internal.xquery.bdx.map: maps/converts Oracle Berkeley DB Xml from/to XQJ items;
• org.eclipse.eilf.xmlstorage.internal.xquery.bdx.message: offers localized messages support. Current Bdx XQJ Implementation version doesn’t use this functionality for all error messages. It only shows how this featuring shall be used/adapted in order to support full internationalization messages support;
• org.eclipse.eilf.xmlstorage.internal.xquery.bdx.ou: object utilities class;
• org.eclipse.eilf.xmlstorage.internal.xquery.bdx.txn: provides transaction demarcation for client code
• org.eclipse.eilf.xmlstorage.internal.xquery.bdx.type and org.eclipse.eilf.xmlstorage.internal.xquery.bdx.value provide the data type hierarchy which is internal used by the current implementation;
• org.eclipse.eilf.xmlstorage.internal.xquery.bdx.util: utility class for internal usage.

(Next versions of the Bdx XQJ Implementation will most probably have minor changes in current package structure – which will not affect the client code implementation)

Implemented functionalities

• Creating data source (BdxXQDataSourceImpl)
• Establishing connection through the data source (BdxXQConnectionImpl)
• Creating expressions
• Binding values to external values
• Executing queries (BdxXQExpressionImpl)
• Retrieving results from xquery
• Closing (release) resources

Non-implemented functionalities

• Load the XQDataSource object through JNDI
• Binding value to the context item
• Executing queries through XQPreparedExpression (BdxXQPreparedExpressionImpl exists but doesn’t provide functionality)
• Using a Result Sequence as input

Following picture outlines the non-implemented interfaces/methods by cutting the method signature / interface with a red line. All the not-implemented operations will be implemented as soon as they will be required to support different operations, different data types and value conversions.