Components of the SDK

Purpose

The BI Java SDK includes a set of APIs in Java class libraries, detailed documentation and examples. This section outlines the components and explains where you can find additional information.

Features

Application Programming Interfaces

The following diagram provides a simplified picture of the APIs in the BI Java SDK:

As shown above, the BI Java SDK contains the following APIs:

Relational APIs:
- Relational Metadata API, for accessing relational metadata
- Relational Query API, for creating, processing, and navigating queries against a relational data source
CommonResultSet API, for accessing and rendering either OLAP or relational result sets
Connection Interfaces

The APIs in the SDK are described in detail in "Chapter 3: Architecture," of the Developer's Guide in the SDK distribution package.

Visit theBI Java Connector page for information about the connector.

Documentation

The SDK distribution package provides a complete documentation set. It includes a Developer's Guide, with step-by-step tutorials, Javadocs including package and overview documentation, and an HTML navigation that brings together the SDK distribution package and the documentation. Launch the package from the index.html file located in the root of the unpackaged distribution archive.

Examples

SDK examples provide easy-to-use Java servlets which demonstrate many aspects of our query APIs, as well as step-by-step connection instructions. These examples are shown in full in the SDK HTML documentation set and in the Developer's Guide, which both form part of the distribution package.