Administrator’s Guide
Table Of Contents
- Preface Introducing FileMaker Pro 5.5 Unlimited
- Chapter 1 Installing the FileMaker Web Server Connector
- Chapter 2 Administering the Web Server Connector
- Chapter 3 Publishing your database on the Web
- Types of web publishing
- Using the FileMakerPro Web Companion
- Creating a custom home page
- Creating a custom home page for Instant Web Publishing
- Creating a custom web site using a database layout
- Web Companion support for Internet mediatypes
- Monitoring your site
- Exporting data to a static HTML page
- Testing your site without a networkconnection
- Opening password-protected databasesremotely
- Chapter 4 Custom web publishing using CDML
- About the CDML examples
- General steps for custom web publishing using CDML
- About CDML format files
- Generating FileMakerPro CGI requests using CDML
- Using the CDML Tool and templates
- Modified CDML tags
- About the CDML Reference database
- Creating error messages
- Using an encoding parameter with a CDML replacement tag
- Planning your web site
- Chapter 5 Using FileMakerPro XML to deliver your data
- About the XML examples
- General process for custom web publishing using XML
- Generating an XML document
- Using the FMPDSORESULT grammar
- Using the FileMakerPro Extended XMLgrammars
- About UTF-8 encoded data
- Generating FileMakerPro CGI requests for an XML document
- Using style sheets with your XMLdocument
- Comparing CSS, XSLT, and JavaScript
- Looking at the XML Inventory example
- Chapter 6 Using Java and JDBC to deliver your data
- About the JDBC examples
- About JDBC
- Using the FileMaker JDBC Driver
- SQL supported by the FileMaker JDBCDriver
- FileMakerPro support for Unicodecharacters
- About the FileMaker JDBC Driver interfaces and extensions
- Example 1: Looking at the FileMakerPro Explorer application
- Example 2: Creating the JBuilder Inventoryapplication
- Example 3: Creating the Visual Cafe Inventory application
- Using the FileMaker Java classes
- Appendix A Valid names used in CGI requests for FileMaker XML data
- Generating a –find, –findall, or –findany request
- Generating a –view request
- Generating a –new request
- Generating an –edit request
- Generating a –delete request
- Generating a –dbnames request
- Generating a –layoutnames request
- Generating a –scriptnames request
- Generating a –dbopen request
- Generating a –dbclose request
- Specifying parameters for the request
- –db (Database)
- –lay (Layout)
- –format (Format)
- –recid (Record ID)
- –modid (Modification ID)
- –lop (Logical operator)
- –op (Comparison operator)
- –max (Maximum records)
- –skip (Skip records)
- –sortfield (Sort field)
- –sortorder (Sort order)
- –script (Script)
- –script.prefind (Script before Find)
- –script.presort (Script before Sort)
- –styletype (Style type)
- –stylehref (Style href)
- –password (Database password)
- field name (Name of specific field)
- Appendix B FileMaker Pro values for error codes
- Appendix C Enabling the FileMaker Pro Web Companion in MacOS X
- Index
Chapter 6
Using Java and JDBC to deliver your data
If you’re a Java programmer, you can use the FileMaker JDBC
Driver with any Rapid Application Development (RAD) tool to
visually create your FileMaker Pro database-aware Java application
or applet.
The FileMaker JDBC Driver lets you directly access FileMaker Pro
data using a RAD tool as you’re building your code. Then, the Java
application or applet that uses the FileMaker JDBC Driver can
access FileMaker Pro data via the Web Companion.
About the JDBC examples
FileMaker Pro 5.5 Unlimited provides three examples of Java
applications that use the FileMaker JDBC Driver to connect to a
database. One example is a development-tool-independent Java
application that was created using the basic Java classes and Sun
Microsystems’ Swing 1.1.1. The other two examples are Java front
ends created with the development tools Corel’s (Borland/Inprise)
JBuilder 3.0 Professional for Windows and Symantec’s Visual Cafe
4.0 Expert Edition for Windows.
For step-by-step instructions, see:
1 “Example 1: Looking at the FileMaker Pro Explorer application”
on page 6-8
1 “Example 2: Creating the JBuilder Inventory application” on
page 6-11
1 “Example 3: Creating the Visual Cafe Inventory application” on
page 6-14
The FMWSC and Tools CD also includes the proprietary FileMaker
Java classes and examples of Java applets that use them. For
information, see “Using the FileMaker Java classes” on page 6-17.
For additional information and examples that use Java and JDBC for
general data interchange or for publishing FileMaker Pro data on the
Web, see the product support pages on the FileMaker, Inc. web site
at www.filemaker.com. As a shortcut to the site, double-click
FileMaker on the Web (included on the FileMaker Pro CD).
About JDBC
JDBC is a Java API for executing Structured Query Language (SQL)
statements, the standard language for accessing relational databases.
JDBC is a trademarked name and not an acronym—although it is
thought of as standing for Java Database Connectivity because it is
the ODBC (Open Database Connectivity) equivalent for Java. JDBC
is a low-level interface, which means that it is used to call SQL
commands directly. It is also designed to be used as a base for higher
level interfaces and tools.
Your Java applet or application can talk directly to the database by
using the JDBC driver to communicate with FileMaker Pro. Your
SQL statements are delivered to the database and the results of those
statements are sent back to you. The database can be located on
another machine (the server machine) connected to the network,
while your Java applet or application is located on your machine (the
client machine). This is referred to as a client/server configuration.