IBM Workplace Forms: Guide to Building and Integrating a Sample Workplace Forms Application

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Chapter 5. Building the base scenario:

Stage 2

In this chapter we extend the base J2EE scenario we created in Chapter 4, “Building the base

scenario: Stage 1” on page 53. We are now adding a DB2 environment. The reason for this is

to take into consideration the potential data growth and subsequent server performance

implications when storing a huge amount of large XDFL files on the file system. Storing the

forms in DB2 gives you scalability, reliability, and database search capabilities.

We describe the following topics:

򐂰 Installing DB2 clients and servers

򐂰 Creating and populating DB2 tables

򐂰 Developing a DB2 data access layer

򐂰 Working with Web services

򐂰 Using the Workplace Forms API

򐂰 Creating JSPs to view DB2 data

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Note: The code used for building this sample scenario application is available for

download. For specific information about how to download the sample code, please refer to

Appendix A, “Additional material” on page 333.

Note: All specific examples shown and used when building the sample scenario

application are based on the codebase for IBM Workplace Forms Release 2.5.