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11/20/18 3:03 PM
Hello everyone,

we are currently evaluating the possibility of connecting ADOxx with real world data. In our first “brainstorming phase” we imagined to use connections to databases for this purpose.
It now seems that this will not be possible, since we have only found functions for reading and writing files in the documentation. Our idea is now to create a parser that will be able to read XML documents.

Are there best practices we maybe missed? What are your thoughts about this?

Best regards
Oliver

RE: Some Questions
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11/21/18 9:06 AM as a reply to Oliver Just.
Hi Oliver,
thanks for the question. ADOxx supports interfacing with databases via an ODBC connection - please have a look at the link below that provides details on this kind of interfacing approach. The post also summarizes the techniques to read from files and parse the results.

DB-ODBC Connection: https://www.adoxx.org/live/faq/-/message_boards/message/64131

In addition, it would also be possible to connect and read from webservice interfaces (e.g. if database data is exposed via webservice operations). For details on this, please have a look at the "Extended HTTP Requests" building block that provides an implementation for ReST calls (https://www.adoxx.org/live/extended-http-requests-details). 
A third approach that could be feasible is to integrate not on a data level but already on functionality level (e.g. integrate via Java calls - an example for calculating random values in Java and returning them to ADOxx is available here: https://www.adoxx.org/live/faq/-/message_boards/message/353857)

Hope the pointers above help - in case of further clarification or concrete issues in a later phase, please let me know!