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5.5 DB2 II versus no DB2 II: A sample portlet
The Cotton-Wood Reports Portlet is a good example to illustrate application
developer productivity gains through reduced complexity when using DB2 II.
The Cotton-Wood Reports Portlet aggregates data from three separate data
stores (XML, Lotus Notes, and DB2 UDB).
Building this portlet using native APIs involves the following:
1. Build a join capability into the portlet (Java code). If there had been a request
for results in a particular sequence then a sort would be required as well.
2. Implement a DB2 data access class.
3. Implement ...