http://www.onjava.com/lpt/a/3277
1. Retrieve a page worth of data using a single call 2. Execute multiple sql statements and combine their output into a single logical data set 3. Retrieve XML from relational databases declaratively
>> Wednesday, April 19, 2006 6:50:43 PM - Comments by satya
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1. Use Aspire and Tomcat to retrieve XML declaratively from any relational database