Running an XQuery from Java

Once you have XPath and XQuery firmly in hand, and an XQJ implementation on your classpath, you're ready to write Java code and run your queries. There are two basic steps you'll follow in every program you write:

1. Create/Access an XQuery data source.
2. Execute your XQueries.

These are both fairly simple steps, and as long as you're not switching between different XQuery implementations, the first step stays the same in all your programs. In fact, you might want to bundle up the code you write to handle data source configuration and connection into a utility class.