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[05/14] empire-db git commit: Spring Examples moved to examples project

Spring Examples moved to examples project

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Branch: refs/heads/EMPIREDB-247
Commit: cc86a1fd7d80ffd5a81910e68a5fd07901a4786d
Parents: f951502
Author: inemeth <in...@apache.org>
Authored: Mon Oct 31 09:21:30 2016 +0100
Committer: inemeth <in...@apache.org>
Committed: Mon Oct 31 09:21:30 2016 +0100

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 .../empire-db-example-spring/pom.xml            |   7 +-
 .../empire/spring/example1/EmpireApp.java       |  47 +++
 .../empire/spring/example1/EmpireAppImpl.java   | 336 +++++++++++++++++++
 .../empire/spring/example1/SampleBean.java      | 126 +++++++
 .../apache/empire/spring/example1/SampleDB.java | 148 ++++++++
 .../empire/spring/example1/SampleSpringApp.java |  86 +++++
 .../empire/spring/example2/Department.java      |  99 ++++++
 .../apache/empire/spring/example2/Employee.java | 140 ++++++++
 .../empire/spring/example2/EmployeeDao.java     |  47 +++
 .../empire/spring/example2/EmployeeDaoImpl.java | 231 +++++++++++++
 .../spring/example2/EmployeeSpringApp.java      | 227 +++++++++++++
 .../resources/example1/applicationContext.xml   |  92 +++++
 .../example2/applicationContext-employee.xml    |  85 +++++
 .../src/main/resources/settings.properties      |   2 +-
 empire-db-spring/pom.xml                        |  10 -
 .../empire/spring/example1/EmpireApp.java       |  47 ---
 .../empire/spring/example1/EmpireAppImpl.java   | 336 -------------------
 .../empire/spring/example1/SampleBean.java      | 126 -------
 .../apache/empire/spring/example1/SampleDB.java | 148 --------
 .../empire/spring/example1/SampleSpringApp.java |  86 -----
 .../empire/spring/example2/Department.java      |  99 ------
 .../apache/empire/spring/example2/Employee.java | 140 --------
 .../empire/spring/example2/EmployeeDao.java     |  47 ---
 .../empire/spring/example2/EmployeeDaoImpl.java | 231 -------------
 .../spring/example2/EmployeeSpringApp.java      | 227 -------------
 .../resources/example1/applicationContext.xml   |  92 -----
 .../example2/applicationContext-employee.xml    |  85 -----
 .../src/main/resources/log4j.properties         |  21 --
 .../src/main/resources/settings.properties      |  44 ---
 29 files changed, 1671 insertions(+), 1741 deletions(-)
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http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/empire-db/blob/cc86a1fd/empire-db-examples/empire-db-example-spring/pom.xml
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diff --git a/empire-db-examples/empire-db-example-spring/pom.xml b/empire-db-examples/empire-db-example-spring/pom.xml
index 0eba0e9..101cb25 100644
--- a/empire-db-examples/empire-db-example-spring/pom.xml
+++ b/empire-db-examples/empire-db-example-spring/pom.xml
@@ -107,7 +107,12 @@
 		    <version>1.0</version>
 		</dependency>
 		-->
-		
+
+		<dependency>
+			<groupId>org.apache.empire-db</groupId>
+			<artifactId>empire-db-spring</artifactId>
+			<version>2.4.5-SNAPSHOT</version>
+		</dependency>
 	</dependencies>
 
     <!-- better would be to add this repository in your settings.xml -->

http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/empire-db/blob/cc86a1fd/empire-db-examples/empire-db-example-spring/src/main/java/org/apache/empire/spring/example1/EmpireApp.java
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diff --git a/empire-db-examples/empire-db-example-spring/src/main/java/org/apache/empire/spring/example1/EmpireApp.java b/empire-db-examples/empire-db-example-spring/src/main/java/org/apache/empire/spring/example1/EmpireApp.java
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+++ b/empire-db-examples/empire-db-example-spring/src/main/java/org/apache/empire/spring/example1/EmpireApp.java
@@ -0,0 +1,47 @@
+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *  http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ * specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.
+ */
+package org.apache.empire.spring.example1;
+
+
+/**
+ * This is the interface to the application. It is usually some high level interface; for this basic
+ * example this is the dao object.
+ *
+ */
+public interface EmpireApp {
+
+    void clearDatabase();
+
+    void setupDatabase();
+    
+    Integer insertDepartment(String departmentName, String businessUnit);
+
+    Integer insertEmployee(String firstName, String lastName, String gender, int departmentId);
+
+    void updateEmployee(int idPers, String phoneNumber);
+
+    void doQuery(QueryType type);
+
+    public enum QueryType
+    {
+	    Reader,
+        BeanList,
+	    XmlDocument
+	}
+}

http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/empire-db/blob/cc86a1fd/empire-db-examples/empire-db-example-spring/src/main/java/org/apache/empire/spring/example1/EmpireAppImpl.java
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diff --git a/empire-db-examples/empire-db-example-spring/src/main/java/org/apache/empire/spring/example1/EmpireAppImpl.java b/empire-db-examples/empire-db-example-spring/src/main/java/org/apache/empire/spring/example1/EmpireAppImpl.java
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+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *  http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ * specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.
+ */
+package org.apache.empire.spring.example1;
+
+import java.sql.Connection;
+import java.sql.SQLException;
+import java.util.HashMap;
+import java.util.List;
+import java.util.Map;
+
+import org.apache.empire.db.DBColumn;
+import org.apache.empire.db.DBColumnExpr;
+import org.apache.empire.db.DBCommand;
+import org.apache.empire.db.DBDatabase;
+import org.apache.empire.db.DBDatabaseDriver;
+import org.apache.empire.db.DBReader;
+import org.apache.empire.db.DBRecord;
+import org.apache.empire.db.DBRecordData;
+import org.apache.empire.db.DBSQLScript;
+import org.apache.empire.db.DBTable;
+import org.apache.empire.db.derby.DBDatabaseDriverDerby;
+import org.apache.empire.db.h2.DBDatabaseDriverH2;
+import org.apache.empire.db.hsql.DBDatabaseDriverHSql;
+import org.apache.empire.db.postgresql.DBDatabaseDriverPostgreSQL;
+import org.apache.empire.spring.DBReaderExtractor;
+import org.apache.empire.spring.DBRecordCallbackHandler;
+import org.apache.empire.spring.DBRecordMapper;
+import org.apache.empire.spring.EmpireDaoSupport;
+import org.apache.empire.xml.XMLWriter;
+import org.springframework.dao.DataAccessException;
+import org.springframework.jdbc.core.ConnectionCallback;
+import org.springframework.transaction.annotation.Transactional;
+import org.w3c.dom.Document;
+
+/**
+ *
+ */
+public class EmpireAppImpl extends EmpireDaoSupport implements EmpireApp {
+
+	@Transactional
+	public void clearDatabase() {
+		SampleDB db = getDatabase();
+
+		DBCommand cmd = db.createCommand();
+		// Delete all Employees (no constraints)
+		getEmpireTemplate().executeDelete(db.EMPLOYEES, cmd);
+		// Delete all Departments (no constraints)
+		getEmpireTemplate().executeDelete(db.DEPARTMENTS, cmd);
+	}
+
+
+	@Transactional
+	public Integer insertDepartment(String departmentName, String businessUnit) {
+		SampleDB db = getDatabase();
+
+		DBRecord rec = new DBRecord();
+		rec.create(db.DEPARTMENTS);
+		rec.setValue(db.DEPARTMENTS.NAME, departmentName);
+		rec.setValue(db.DEPARTMENTS.BUSINESS_UNIT, businessUnit);
+
+		getEmpireTemplate().updateRecord(rec);
+		// Return Department ID
+		return rec.getInt(db.DEPARTMENTS.DEPARTMENT_ID);
+	}
+
+	@Transactional
+	public Integer insertEmployee(String firstName, String lastName,
+			String gender, int departmentId) {
+		SampleDB db = getDatabase();
+
+		DBRecord rec = new DBRecord();
+		rec.create(db.EMPLOYEES);
+		rec.setValue(db.EMPLOYEES.FIRSTNAME, firstName);
+		rec.setValue(db.EMPLOYEES.LASTNAME, lastName);
+		rec.setValue(db.EMPLOYEES.GENDER, gender);
+		rec.setValue(db.EMPLOYEES.DEPARTMENT_ID, departmentId);
+		getEmpireTemplate().updateRecord(rec);
+		// Return Employee ID
+		return rec.getInt(db.EMPLOYEES.EMPLOYEE_ID);
+	}
+
+	@Transactional
+	public void updateEmployee(int idPers, String phoneNumber) {
+		if (getEmployee(idPers) == null) {
+			// if you like more verbose exceptions for the app
+			throw new IllegalArgumentException(
+					"The specified employee does not exist.");
+		}
+
+		SampleDB db = getDatabase();
+
+		DBRecord rec = getEmpireTemplate().openRecord(db.EMPLOYEES, idPers);
+		// Set
+		rec.setValue(db.EMPLOYEES.PHONE_NUMBER, phoneNumber);
+		getEmpireTemplate().updateRecord(rec);
+	}
+
+	@Transactional(readOnly = true)
+	public void doQuery(QueryType type) {
+		SampleDB db = getDatabase();
+
+		// Define the query
+		DBCommand cmd = db.createCommand();
+		// Define shortcuts for tables used - not necessary but convenient
+		final SampleDB.Employees EMP = db.EMPLOYEES;
+		final SampleDB.Departments DEP = db.DEPARTMENTS;
+
+		// The following expression concats lastname + ', ' + firstname
+		final DBColumnExpr EMPLOYEE_FULLNAME = EMP.LASTNAME.append(", ")
+				.append(EMP.FIRSTNAME).as("FULL_NAME");
+
+		// The following expression extracts the extension number from the phone
+		// field
+		// e.g. substr(PHONE_NUMBER,
+		// length(PHONE_NUMBER)-instr(reverse(PHONE_NUMBER), '-')+2) AS
+		// PHONE_EXTENSION
+		// Hint: Since the reverse() function is not supported by HSQLDB there
+		// is special treatment for HSQL
+		final DBColumnExpr PHONE_LAST_DASH;
+		if (db.getDriver() instanceof DBDatabaseDriverHSql
+				|| db.getDriver() instanceof DBDatabaseDriverDerby
+				|| db.getDriver() instanceof DBDatabaseDriverH2)
+			PHONE_LAST_DASH = EMP.PHONE_NUMBER.indexOf("-",
+					EMP.PHONE_NUMBER.indexOf("-").plus(1)).plus(1); // HSQLDB
+																	// only
+		else
+			PHONE_LAST_DASH = EMP.PHONE_NUMBER.length()
+					.minus(EMP.PHONE_NUMBER.reverse().indexOf("-")).plus(2);
+		final DBColumnExpr PHONE_EXT_NUMBER = EMP.PHONE_NUMBER.substring(
+				PHONE_LAST_DASH).as("PHONE_EXTENSION");
+
+		// DBColumnExpr genderExpr =
+		// cmd.select(EMP.GENDER.decode(EMP.GENDER.getOptions()).as(EMP.GENDER.getName()));
+		// Select required columns
+		cmd.select(EMP.EMPLOYEE_ID, EMPLOYEE_FULLNAME);
+		if (db.getDriver() instanceof DBDatabaseDriverPostgreSQL) {
+			// postgres does not support the substring expression
+			cmd.select(EMP.GENDER, EMP.PHONE_NUMBER);
+		} else {
+			cmd.select(EMP.GENDER, EMP.PHONE_NUMBER, PHONE_EXT_NUMBER);
+
+		}
+		cmd.select(DEP.NAME.as("DEPARTMENT"));
+		cmd.select(DEP.BUSINESS_UNIT);
+		cmd.join(EMP.DEPARTMENT_ID, DEP.DEPARTMENT_ID);
+		// Set constraints and order
+		cmd.where(EMP.LASTNAME.length().isGreaterThan(0));
+		cmd.orderBy(EMP.LASTNAME, EMP.FIRSTNAME);
+
+		// Query Records and print output
+		try {
+			// Open Reader
+			System.out.println("Running Query:");
+			System.out.println(cmd.getSelect());
+			// Print output
+			System.out.println("---------------------------------");
+			switch (type) {
+			case BeanList:
+				// Text-Output by iterating through all records.
+				DBRecordCallbackHandler readerImpl = new DBRecordCallbackHandler() {
+
+					public void processRecord(DBRecordData reader) {
+						System.out.println(reader.getString(EMP.EMPLOYEE_ID)
+								+ "\t"
+								+ reader.getString(EMPLOYEE_FULLNAME)
+								+ "\t"
+								+ EMP.GENDER.getOptions().get(
+										reader.getString(EMP.GENDER)) + "\t"
+								+ reader.getString(PHONE_EXT_NUMBER) + "\t"
+								+ reader.getString(DEP.NAME));
+
+					}
+				};
+				getEmpireTemplate().query(cmd, readerImpl);
+				break;
+			case Reader:
+				// Text-Output using a list of Java Beans supplied by the
+				// DBReader
+				DBReaderExtractor<List<SampleBean>> beanListImpl = new DBReaderExtractor<List<SampleBean>>() {
+
+					public List<SampleBean> process(DBReader reader) {
+						return reader.getBeanList(SampleBean.class);
+					}
+				};
+				List<SampleBean> beanList = getEmpireTemplate().query(cmd,
+						beanListImpl);
+				System.out.println(String.valueOf(beanList.size())
+						+ " SampleBeans returned from Query.");
+				for (SampleBean b : beanList) {
+					System.out.println(b.toString());
+				}
+				break;
+			case XmlDocument:
+				// XML Output
+				XmlDocumentExtractor xmlImpl = new XmlDocumentExtractor();
+				Document doc = getEmpireTemplate().query(cmd, xmlImpl);
+				// Print XML Document to System.out
+				XMLWriter.debug(doc);
+				break;
+			}
+
+		} finally {
+
+			// always close Reader
+
+			// reader is closed in EmpireTemplate's methods
+
+			// reader.close();
+		}
+	}
+
+	public Map<Object, Object> getDepartment(int id) {
+		SampleDB db = getDatabase();
+		return get(db.DEPARTMENTS, id);
+	}
+
+	public Map<Object, Object> getEmployee(int id) {
+		SampleDB db = getDatabase();
+		return get(db.EMPLOYEES, id);
+	}
+
+	private Map<Object, Object> get(DBTable table, int pk) {
+
+		SampleDB db = getDatabase();
+
+		DBCommand cmd = db.createCommand();
+		cmd.select(table.getColumns());
+		cmd.where(table.getPrimaryKey().getColumns()[0].is(pk)); // i know there
+																	// is just
+																	// one
+																	// pk-column
+																	// ;-)
+		Map<Object, Object> dep = getEmpireTemplate().queryForObject(cmd,
+				new RowToObjectMapDataMapper(table));
+
+		return dep;
+	}
+
+	public static class XmlDocumentExtractor implements
+			DBReaderExtractor<Document> {
+
+		public Document process(DBReader reader) {
+			return reader.getXmlDocument();
+		}
+
+	}
+
+	public static class RowToObjectMapDataMapper implements
+			DBRecordMapper<Map<Object, Object>> {
+
+		DBTable table;
+
+		public RowToObjectMapDataMapper(DBTable table) {
+			super();
+			this.table = table;
+		}
+
+		public Map<Object, Object> mapRecord(DBRecordData record, int rowNum) {
+			Map<Object, Object> dep = new HashMap<Object, Object>();
+			for (DBColumn col : table.getColumns()) {
+				dep.put(col.getName(), record.getValue(col));
+			}
+			return dep;
+		}
+
+	}
+
+	public boolean databaseExists() {
+		Connection conn = getConnection();
+		try {
+			DBDatabase db = getDatabase();
+			if (db.getTables() == null || db.getTables().isEmpty()) {
+				throw new AssertionError(
+						"There are no tables in this database!");
+			}
+			DBCommand cmd = db.createCommand();
+			if (cmd == null) {
+				throw new AssertionError("The DBCommand object is null.");
+			}
+			DBTable t = db.getTables().get(0);
+			cmd.select(t.count());
+			return (db.querySingleInt(cmd, -1, conn) >= 0);
+		} catch (Exception e) {
+			return false;
+		}
+	}
+
+	public void initializeDatabase() {
+		if (!databaseExists()) {
+			createDatabase();
+		}
+	}
+
+	@Transactional
+	public void setupDatabase() {
+		initializeDatabase();
+	}
+
+	public void createDatabase() {
+
+		// create DLL for Database Definition
+		final DBSQLScript script = new DBSQLScript();
+		final DBDatabaseDriver driver = getDatabase().getDriver();
+		getDatabase().getCreateDDLScript(driver, script);
+
+		// Show DLL Statement
+		System.out.println(script.toString());
+		// Execute Script
+		getEmpireTemplate().execute(new ConnectionCallback<Object>() {
+
+			public Object doInConnection(Connection con) throws SQLException,
+					DataAccessException {
+				script.executeAll(driver, con, false);
+				return null;
+			}
+		});
+
+	}
+
+}

http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/empire-db/blob/cc86a1fd/empire-db-examples/empire-db-example-spring/src/main/java/org/apache/empire/spring/example1/SampleBean.java
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+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *  http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ * specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.
+ */
+package org.apache.empire.spring.example1;
+
+
+/**
+ * The SampleBean class is used to demonstrate JavaBean support for SQL-Queries.
+ * The SampleBean is used in the SampleApp's queryRecords function.
+ */
+public class SampleBean
+{
+    private int    employeeId;
+    private String fullName;
+    private String gender;
+    private String phoneNumber;
+    private String department;
+    private String businessUnit;
+
+    /*
+     * Uncomment this if you want to use constructor instead of setters
+     * However, number of arguments and data types must match query!
+     *
+    public SampleBean(int employeeId, String fullName, String gender, String phoneNumber, String department, String businessUnit)
+    {
+        this.employeeId = employeeId;
+        this.fullName = fullName;
+        this.gender = gender;
+        this.phoneNumber = phoneNumber;
+        this.department = department;
+        this.businessUnit = businessUnit;
+    }
+    */
+    
+    public int getEmployeeId()
+    {
+        return employeeId;
+    }
+
+    public void setEmployeeId(int employeeId)
+    {
+        this.employeeId = employeeId;
+    }
+
+    public String getFullName()
+    {
+        return fullName;
+    }
+
+    public void setFullName(String fullName)
+    {
+        this.fullName = fullName;
+    }
+
+    public String getGender()
+    {
+        return gender;
+    }
+
+    public void setGender(String gender)
+    {
+        this.gender = gender;
+    }
+
+    public String getPhoneNumber()
+    {
+        return phoneNumber;
+    }
+
+    public void setPhoneNumber(String phoneNumber)
+    {
+        this.phoneNumber = phoneNumber;
+    }
+
+    public String getDepartment()
+    {
+        return department;
+    }
+
+    public void setDepartment(String department)
+    {
+        this.department = department;
+    }
+
+    public String getBusinessUnit()
+    {
+        return businessUnit;
+    }
+
+    public void setBusinessUnit(String businessUnit)
+    {
+        this.businessUnit = businessUnit;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public String toString()
+    {
+        StringBuffer buf = new StringBuffer();
+        buf.append(employeeId);
+        buf.append("\t");
+        buf.append(fullName);
+        buf.append("\t");
+        buf.append(gender);
+        buf.append("\t");
+        buf.append(department);
+        buf.append("\t");
+        buf.append(businessUnit);
+        return buf.toString();
+    }
+    
+}

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+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *  http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ * specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.
+ */
+package org.apache.empire.spring.example1;
+
+import org.apache.empire.commons.Options;
+import org.apache.empire.data.DataType;
+import org.apache.empire.data.DataMode;
+import org.apache.empire.db.DBColumn;
+import org.apache.empire.db.DBDatabase;
+import org.apache.empire.db.DBTable;
+import org.apache.empire.db.DBTableColumn;
+
+/**
+ * <PRE>
+ * This file contains the definition of the data model in Java.
+ * The SampleDB data model consists of two tables and a foreign key relation.
+ * The tables are defined as nested classes here, but you may put the in separate files if you want.
+ *
+ * PLEASE NOTE THE NAMING CONVENTION:
+ * Since all tables, views and columns are declared as "final" constants they are all in upper case.
+ * We recommend using a prefix of T_ for tables and C_ for columns in order to keep them together
+ * when listed in your IDE's code completion.
+ * There is no need to stick to this convention but it makes life just another little bit easier.
+ *
+ * You may declare other database tables or views in the same way.
+ * </PRE>
+ */
+public class SampleDB extends DBDatabase
+{
+    private final static long serialVersionUID = 1L;
+
+    /**
+     * This class represents the definition of the Departments table.
+     */
+    public static class Departments extends DBTable
+    {
+
+        private final static long serialVersionUID = 1L;
+
+        public final DBTableColumn DEPARTMENT_ID;
+        public final DBTableColumn NAME;
+        public final DBTableColumn HEAD;
+        public final DBTableColumn BUSINESS_UNIT;
+        public final DBTableColumn UPDATE_TIMESTAMP;
+
+        public Departments(DBDatabase db)
+        {
+            super("DEPARTMENTS", db);
+            // ID
+            DEPARTMENT_ID   = addColumn("DEPARTMENT_ID",    DataType.AUTOINC,       0, true, "DEP_ID_SEQUENCE");
+            NAME            = addColumn("NAME",             DataType.TEXT,         80, true);
+            HEAD            = addColumn("HEAD",             DataType.TEXT,         80, false);
+            BUSINESS_UNIT   = addColumn("BUSINESS_UNIT",    DataType.TEXT,          4, true, "ITTK");
+            UPDATE_TIMESTAMP= addColumn("UPDATE_TIMESTAMP", DataType.DATETIME,      0, true);
+
+            // Primary Key
+            setPrimaryKey(DEPARTMENT_ID);
+            // Set other Indexes
+            addIndex("DEARTMENT_NAME_IDX", true, new DBColumn[] { NAME });
+            // Set timestamp column for save updates
+            setTimestampColumn(UPDATE_TIMESTAMP);
+        }
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * This class represents the definition of the Employees table.
+     */
+    public static class Employees extends DBTable
+    {
+        private final static long serialVersionUID = 1L;
+      
+        public final DBTableColumn EMPLOYEE_ID;
+        public final DBTableColumn SALUTATION;
+        public final DBTableColumn FIRSTNAME;
+        public final DBTableColumn LASTNAME;
+        public final DBTableColumn DATE_OF_BIRTH;
+        public final DBTableColumn DEPARTMENT_ID;
+        public final DBTableColumn GENDER;
+        public final DBTableColumn PHONE_NUMBER;
+        public final DBTableColumn EMAIL;
+        public final DBTableColumn SALARY;
+        public final DBTableColumn RETIRED;
+        public final DBTableColumn UPDATE_TIMESTAMP;
+
+        public Employees(DBDatabase db)
+        {
+            super("EMPLOYEES", db);
+            // ID
+            EMPLOYEE_ID     = addColumn("EMPLOYEE_ID",      DataType.AUTOINC,      0, true, "EMPLOYEE_ID_SEQUENCE");
+            SALUTATION      = addColumn("SALUTATION",       DataType.TEXT,        20, false);
+            FIRSTNAME       = addColumn("FIRST_NAME",       DataType.TEXT,        40, true);
+            LASTNAME        = addColumn("LAST_NAME",        DataType.TEXT,        40, true);
+            DATE_OF_BIRTH   = addColumn("DATE_OF_BIRTH",    DataType.DATE,         0, false);
+            DEPARTMENT_ID   = addColumn("DEPARTMENT_ID",    DataType.INTEGER,      0, true);
+            GENDER          = addColumn("GENDER",           DataType.TEXT,         1, false);
+            PHONE_NUMBER    = addColumn("PHONE_NUMBER",     DataType.TEXT,        40, false);
+            EMAIL           = addColumn("EMAIL",            DataType.TEXT,        80, false);
+            SALARY          = addColumn("SALARY",           DataType.DECIMAL,   10.2, false);
+            RETIRED         = addColumn("RETIRED",          DataType.BOOL,         0, true, false);
+            UPDATE_TIMESTAMP= addColumn("UPDATE_TIMESTAMP", DataType.DATETIME,     0, true);
+
+            // Primary Key
+            setPrimaryKey(EMPLOYEE_ID);
+            // Set other Indexes
+            addIndex("EMPLOYEE_NAME_IDX", true, new DBColumn[] { FIRSTNAME, LASTNAME, DATE_OF_BIRTH });
+            // Set timestamp column for save updates
+            setTimestampColumn(UPDATE_TIMESTAMP);
+
+            // Create Options for GENDER column
+            Options genders = new Options();
+            genders.set("M", "Male");
+            genders.set("F", "Female");
+            GENDER.setOptions(genders);
+        }
+    }
+
+    // Declare all Tables and Views here
+    public final Departments  DEPARTMENTS = new Departments(this);
+    public final Employees    EMPLOYEES   = new Employees(this);
+
+    /**
+     * Constructor of the SampleDB data model description
+     *
+     * Put all foreign key relations here.
+     */
+    public SampleDB()
+    {
+        // Define Foreign-Key Relations
+        addRelation( EMPLOYEES.DEPARTMENT_ID.referenceOn( DEPARTMENTS.DEPARTMENT_ID ));
+    }
+
+}

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+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *  http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ * specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.
+ */
+package org.apache.empire.spring.example1;
+
+import java.util.logging.Logger;
+
+import org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader;
+import org.springframework.context.ApplicationContext;
+import org.springframework.context.support.GenericApplicationContext;
+import org.springframework.core.io.ClassPathResource;
+
+/**
+ * 
+ */
+public class SampleSpringApp {
+    private static final Logger log = Logger.getLogger(SampleSpringApp.class.getName());
+
+    //creates the application context
+    //this is usually in some bootstrapping code; so your application will
+    //just have one at runtime.
+    static ApplicationContext ctx = getContext();
+
+    //get the service that is the entry point into the application
+    //normally this is injected by spring into classes that need it
+    static EmpireApp appBean = ctx.getBean("empireApp", EmpireApp.class);
+
+    public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
+
+        System.out.println("Running Spring Example...");
+
+        appBean.setupDatabase();
+        appBean.clearDatabase();
+        
+        System.out.println("*** Step 6: insertDepartment() & insertEmployee() ***");
+        int idDevDep = appBean.insertDepartment("Development", "ITTK");
+		int idSalDep = appBean.insertDepartment("Sales", "ITTK");
+
+        int idPers1 = appBean.insertEmployee("Peter", "Sharp", "M", idDevDep);
+		int idPers2 = appBean.insertEmployee("Fred", "Bloggs", "M", idDevDep);
+		int idPers3 = appBean.insertEmployee("Emma", "White", "F", idSalDep);
+
+        System.out.println("*** Step 7: updateEmployee() ***");
+        appBean.updateEmployee(idPers1, "+49-7531-457160");
+        appBean.updateEmployee(idPers2, "+49-5555-505050");
+        appBean.updateEmployee(idPers3, "+49-040-125486");
+
+        System.out.println("*** Step 8 Option 1: queryRecords() / Tab-Output ***");
+        appBean.doQuery(EmpireApp.QueryType.Reader);
+
+        System.out.println("*** Step 8 Option 2: queryRecords() / Bean-List-Output ***");
+        appBean.doQuery(EmpireApp.QueryType.BeanList);
+
+        System.out.println("*** Step 8 Option 3: queryRecords() / XML-Output ***");
+        appBean.doQuery(EmpireApp.QueryType.XmlDocument);
+        
+        
+    }
+
+
+
+    static GenericApplicationContext getContext() {
+        log.info("Creating Spring Application Context ...");
+        GenericApplicationContext ctx = new GenericApplicationContext();
+        XmlBeanDefinitionReader reader = new XmlBeanDefinitionReader(ctx);
+        reader.loadBeanDefinitions(new ClassPathResource("/example1/applicationContext.xml"));
+
+        ctx.refresh();
+        return ctx;
+    }
+}

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+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *  http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ * specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.
+ */
+package org.apache.empire.spring.example2;
+
+public class Department {
+
+	private Integer departmentId;
+	private String name;
+	private String businessUnit;
+	private String head;
+
+	public Integer getDepartmentId() {
+		return departmentId;
+	}
+
+	public void setDepartmentId(Integer departmentId) {
+		this.departmentId = departmentId;
+	}
+
+	public String getName() {
+		return name;
+	}
+
+	public void setName(String name) {
+		this.name = name;
+	}
+
+	public String getBusinessUnit() {
+		return businessUnit;
+	}
+
+	public void setBusinessUnit(String businessUnit) {
+		this.businessUnit = businessUnit;
+	}
+
+	public String getHead() {
+		return head;
+	}
+
+	public void setHead(String head) {
+		this.head = head;
+	}
+
+	@Override
+	public String toString() {
+		StringBuffer buf = new StringBuffer();
+		buf.append(departmentId);
+		buf.append("\t");
+		buf.append(name);
+		buf.append(" ");
+		buf.append(businessUnit);
+		buf.append("\t");
+		buf.append(head);
+		return buf.toString();
+	}
+	
+	@Override
+	public boolean equals(Object obj) {
+		if (this == obj) {
+			return true;
+		}
+		if (obj == null) {
+			return false;
+		}
+
+		if (obj.getClass().equals(this.getClass())) {
+			Department other = (Department) obj;
+			if (other.departmentId == null || this.departmentId == null) {
+				return false;
+			}
+			return this.departmentId.equals(other.departmentId);
+		}
+
+		return super.equals(obj);
+	}
+
+	@Override
+	public int hashCode() {
+		return 1;
+	}
+
+	
+}

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+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *  http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ * specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.
+ */
+package org.apache.empire.spring.example2;
+
+public class Employee {
+
+	public static enum Gender {
+
+		M("Male"), F("Female");
+
+		private String label;
+
+		private Gender(String label) {
+			this.label = label;
+		}
+
+		@Override
+		public String toString() {
+			return this.label;
+		}
+	}
+
+	private Integer employeeId;
+	private String firstName;
+	private String lastName;
+	private Gender gender;
+	private String phoneNumber;
+
+	private Department department;
+
+	public Integer getEmployeeId() {
+		return employeeId;
+	}
+
+	public void setEmployeeId(Integer employeeId) {
+		this.employeeId = employeeId;
+	}
+
+	public String getFirstName() {
+		return firstName;
+	}
+
+	public void setFirstName(String firstName) {
+		this.firstName = firstName;
+	}
+
+	public String getLastName() {
+		return lastName;
+	}
+
+	public void setLastName(String lastName) {
+		this.lastName = lastName;
+	}
+
+	public Gender getGender() {
+		return gender;
+	}
+
+	public void setGender(Gender gender) {
+		this.gender = gender;
+	}
+
+	public String getPhoneNumber() {
+		return phoneNumber;
+	}
+
+	public void setPhoneNumber(String phoneNumber) {
+		this.phoneNumber = phoneNumber;
+	}
+
+	public Department getDepartment() {
+		return department;
+	}
+
+	public void setDepartment(Department department) {
+		this.department = department;
+	}
+
+	@Override
+	public String toString() {
+		StringBuffer buf = new StringBuffer();
+		buf.append(employeeId);
+		buf.append("\t");
+		buf.append(firstName);
+		buf.append(" ");
+		buf.append(lastName);
+		buf.append("\t");
+		buf.append(gender);
+		
+		if (department != null){
+			buf.append("\t");
+			buf.append(department.getName());	
+			buf.append("\t");
+			buf.append(department.getBusinessUnit());	
+		}
+		return buf.toString();
+	}
+
+	@Override
+	public boolean equals(Object obj) {
+		if (this == obj) {
+			return true;
+		}
+		if (obj == null) {
+			return false;
+		}
+
+		if (obj.getClass().equals(this.getClass())) {
+			Employee other = (Employee) obj;
+			if (other.employeeId == null || this.employeeId == null) {
+				return false;
+			}
+			return this.employeeId.equals(other.employeeId);
+		}
+
+		return super.equals(obj);
+	}
+
+	@Override
+	public int hashCode() {
+		return 1;
+	}
+
+}

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+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *  http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ * specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.
+ */
+package org.apache.empire.spring.example2;
+
+import java.util.List;
+
+public interface EmployeeDao {
+
+	public List<Employee> getEmployees();
+	
+	public List<Department> getDepartments();
+
+	public Integer createEmployee(Employee employee);
+
+	public void updateEmployee(Employee employee);
+
+	public Employee openEmployee(Integer id);
+
+	public Employee findEmployee(String firstName, String lastName);
+
+	public Department openDepartment(Integer id);
+
+	public Department findDepartment(String name);
+
+	public Integer createDepartment(Department department);
+
+	public void updateDepartment(Department department);
+
+	public void renameDepartment(Integer id, String name);
+
+}

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+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *  http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ * specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.
+ */
+package org.apache.empire.spring.example2;
+
+import java.util.HashMap;
+import java.util.List;
+import java.util.Map;
+
+import org.apache.empire.db.DBCommand;
+import org.apache.empire.db.DBJoinType;
+import org.apache.empire.db.DBRecord;
+import org.apache.empire.db.DBRecordData;
+import org.apache.empire.spring.DBRecordMapper;
+import org.apache.empire.spring.DBRecordWriter;
+import org.apache.empire.spring.EmpireDaoSupport;
+import org.apache.empire.spring.example1.SampleDB;
+import org.apache.empire.spring.example1.SampleDB.Departments;
+import org.apache.empire.spring.example1.SampleDB.Employees;
+import org.springframework.transaction.annotation.Transactional;
+
+public class EmployeeDaoImpl extends EmpireDaoSupport implements EmployeeDao {
+
+	private Employees EMPLOYEES;
+	private Departments DEPARTMENTS;
+
+	@Override
+	protected void initEmpireDao() {
+		SampleDB db = getDatabase();
+		this.EMPLOYEES = db.EMPLOYEES;
+		this.DEPARTMENTS = db.DEPARTMENTS;
+	}
+
+	private DBCommand createEmployeeSelectCommand() {
+		DBCommand cmd = getDatabase().createCommand();
+		cmd.select(EMPLOYEES.getColumns());
+		cmd.select(DEPARTMENTS.getColumns());
+
+		cmd.join(EMPLOYEES.DEPARTMENT_ID, DEPARTMENTS.DEPARTMENT_ID, DBJoinType.INNER);
+		return cmd;
+	}
+
+	private DBCommand createDepartmentSelectCommand() {
+		DBCommand cmd = getDatabase().createCommand();
+		cmd.select(DEPARTMENTS.getColumns());
+		return cmd;
+	}
+
+	@Transactional(readOnly = true)
+	public Employee openEmployee(Integer id) {
+		DBCommand cmd = createEmployeeSelectCommand();
+		cmd.where(EMPLOYEES.EMPLOYEE_ID.is(id));
+		return getEmpireTemplate().queryForObject(cmd, new EmployeeMapper());
+	}
+
+	@Transactional(readOnly = true)
+	public Employee findEmployee(String firstName, String lastName) {
+		DBCommand cmd = createEmployeeSelectCommand();
+		cmd.where(EMPLOYEES.FIRSTNAME.is(firstName));
+		cmd.where(EMPLOYEES.LASTNAME.is(lastName));
+		return getEmpireTemplate().queryForObject(cmd, new EmployeeMapper());
+	}
+	
+	@Transactional(readOnly = true)
+	public Department openDepartment(Integer id) {
+		DBCommand cmd = createDepartmentSelectCommand();
+		cmd.where(DEPARTMENTS.DEPARTMENT_ID.is(id));
+		return getEmpireTemplate().queryForBean(cmd, Department.class);
+	}
+
+	@Transactional(readOnly = true)
+	public Department findDepartment(String name) {
+		DBCommand cmd = createDepartmentSelectCommand();
+		cmd.where(DEPARTMENTS.NAME.is(name));
+		return getEmpireTemplate().queryForBean(cmd, Department.class);
+	}
+
+	@Transactional(readOnly = true)
+	public List<Department> getDepartments() {
+		DBCommand cmd = createDepartmentSelectCommand();
+		return getEmpireTemplate().queryForBeanList(cmd, Department.class);
+	}
+
+	
+	@Transactional
+	public void renameDepartment(Integer id, String name) {
+		DBCommand cmd = getDatabase().createCommand();
+		cmd.where(DEPARTMENTS.DEPARTMENT_ID.is(id));
+		cmd.set(DEPARTMENTS.NAME.to(name));
+		getEmpireTemplate().executeUpdate(cmd);
+	}
+
+	@Transactional(readOnly = true)
+	public List<Employee> getEmployees() {
+		DBCommand cmd = createEmployeeSelectCommand();
+		return getEmpireTemplate().query(cmd, new EmployeeMapper());
+	}
+
+	@Transactional
+	public Integer createEmployee(Employee employee) {
+		DBRecord record = new DBRecord();
+		record.create(EMPLOYEES);
+		new EmployeeWriter().write(record, employee);
+		getEmpireTemplate().updateRecord(record);
+		return record.getInt(EMPLOYEES.EMPLOYEE_ID);
+	}
+
+	@Transactional
+	public void updateEmployee(Employee employee) {
+		DBRecord record = getEmpireTemplate().openRecord(EMPLOYEES, employee.getEmployeeId());
+		new EmployeeWriter().write(record, employee);
+		getEmpireTemplate().updateRecord(record);
+	}
+
+	@Transactional
+	public Integer createDepartment(Department department) {
+		DBRecord record = new DBRecord();
+		record.create(DEPARTMENTS);
+		new DepartmentWriter().write(record, department);
+		getEmpireTemplate().updateRecord(record);
+		return record.getInt(DEPARTMENTS.DEPARTMENT_ID);
+	}
+
+	@Transactional
+	public void updateDepartment(Department department) {
+		DBRecord record = getEmpireTemplate().openRecord(DEPARTMENTS, department.getDepartmentId());
+		new DepartmentWriter().write(record, department);
+		getEmpireTemplate().updateRecord(record);
+	}
+
+	private class EmployeeMapper implements DBRecordMapper<Employee> {
+
+		DepartmentMapper departmentMapper = new DepartmentMapper();
+
+        @Override
+		public Employee mapRecord(DBRecordData record, int rowNum) {
+			Employee result = new Employee();
+            // Auto-copy all properties
+			//record.setBeanProperties(result);
+			
+			result.setEmployeeId(record.getInt(EMPLOYEES.EMPLOYEE_ID));
+			result.setFirstName(record.getString(EMPLOYEES.FIRSTNAME));
+			result.setLastName(record.getString(EMPLOYEES.LASTNAME));
+			result.setGender(Employee.Gender.valueOf(record.getString(EMPLOYEES.GENDER)));
+			result.setPhoneNumber(record.getString(EMPLOYEES.PHONE_NUMBER));
+			
+			result.setDepartment(departmentMapper.mapRecord(record, rowNum));
+			return result;
+		}
+
+	}
+
+	private class EmployeeWriter implements DBRecordWriter<Employee> {
+
+        @Override
+		public void write(DBRecord record, Employee entity) {
+			// Auto-copy all properties
+		    //record.setRecordValues(entity);
+			
+		    record.setValue(EMPLOYEES.EMPLOYEE_ID, entity.getEmployeeId());
+			record.setValue(EMPLOYEES.FIRSTNAME, entity.getFirstName());
+			record.setValue(EMPLOYEES.LASTNAME, entity.getLastName());
+			record.setValue(EMPLOYEES.GENDER, entity.getGender().name());
+			record.setValue(EMPLOYEES.PHONE_NUMBER, entity.getPhoneNumber());
+			
+			record.setValue(EMPLOYEES.DEPARTMENT_ID, entity.getDepartment().getDepartmentId());
+		}
+
+	}
+
+	private class DepartmentMapper implements DBRecordMapper<Department> {
+
+		// reader cache, in case of joined resultset the same object is returned
+
+		Map<Integer, Department> cache = new HashMap<Integer, Department>();
+
+        @Override
+		public Department mapRecord(DBRecordData record, int rowNum) {
+
+			Integer id = record.getInt(DEPARTMENTS.DEPARTMENT_ID);
+
+			Department department = cache.get(id);
+			if (department == null) {
+				department = new Department();
+                // Auto-copy all properties
+				//record.setBeanProperties(department);
+				
+				department.setDepartmentId(id);
+				department.setName(record.getString(DEPARTMENTS.NAME));
+				department.setHead(record.getString(DEPARTMENTS.HEAD));
+				department.setBusinessUnit(record.getString(DEPARTMENTS.BUSINESS_UNIT));
+						
+				cache.put(id, department);
+			}
+			return department;
+		}
+
+	}
+
+	private class DepartmentWriter implements DBRecordWriter<Department> {
+
+		@Override
+        public void write(DBRecord record, Department entity) {
+            // Auto-copy all properties
+		    //record.setRecordValues(entity);
+		    
+			record.setValue(DEPARTMENTS.DEPARTMENT_ID, entity.getDepartmentId());
+			record.setValue(DEPARTMENTS.NAME, entity.getName());
+			record.setValue(DEPARTMENTS.HEAD, entity.getHead());
+			record.setValue(DEPARTMENTS.BUSINESS_UNIT, entity.getBusinessUnit());
+			
+		}
+
+	}
+
+}

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+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *  http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ * specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.
+ */
+package org.apache.empire.spring.example2;
+
+import java.sql.Connection;
+import java.sql.SQLException;
+import java.util.Iterator;
+import java.util.List;
+import java.util.logging.Logger;
+
+import org.apache.empire.db.DBColumnExpr;
+import org.apache.empire.db.DBCommand;
+import org.apache.empire.db.DBDatabase;
+import org.apache.empire.db.DBDatabaseDriver;
+import org.apache.empire.db.DBSQLScript;
+import org.apache.empire.db.DBTable;
+import org.apache.empire.spring.EmpireTemplate;
+import org.apache.empire.spring.example1.SampleDB;
+import org.apache.empire.spring.example2.Employee.Gender;
+import org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader;
+import org.springframework.context.ApplicationContext;
+import org.springframework.context.support.GenericApplicationContext;
+import org.springframework.core.io.ClassPathResource;
+import org.springframework.dao.DataAccessException;
+import org.springframework.jdbc.core.ConnectionCallback;
+
+/**
+ * 
+ */
+public class EmployeeSpringApp {
+    private static final Logger log = Logger.getLogger(EmployeeSpringApp.class.getName());
+
+    //creates the application context
+    //this is usually in some bootstrapping code; so your application will
+    //just have one at runtime.
+    static ApplicationContext ctx = getContext();
+
+    //get the service that is the entry point into the application
+    //normally this is injected by spring into classes that need it
+    static EmployeeDao employeeDao = ctx.getBean("employeeDao", EmployeeDao.class);
+    static SampleDB sampleDb = ctx.getBean("sampleDb", SampleDB.class);
+
+    public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
+
+        System.out.println("Running Spring Example...");
+
+        setupDatabase();
+        clearDatabase();
+        
+        Department depDevelopment, depSales;
+        
+        System.out.println("*** Create Departments ***");
+        
+        {
+        	depDevelopment = new Department();
+        	depDevelopment.setName("Development");
+        	depDevelopment.setBusinessUnit("ITTK");
+        	Integer id = employeeDao.createDepartment(depDevelopment);
+        	depDevelopment = employeeDao.openDepartment(id);
+        }
+        {
+        	depSales = new Department();
+        	depSales.setName("Sales");
+        	depSales.setBusinessUnit("ITTK");
+        	Integer id = employeeDao.createDepartment(depSales);
+        	depSales = employeeDao.openDepartment(id);
+        }
+        
+        System.out.println("*** Create Employees ***");
+
+        Employee peter = new Employee();
+        peter.setFirstName("Peter");
+        peter.setLastName("Sharp");
+        peter.setGender(Gender.M);
+        peter.setDepartment(depDevelopment);
+        
+        Integer peterId = employeeDao.createEmployee(peter);
+        peter = employeeDao.openEmployee(peterId);
+        
+        
+        
+        Employee fred = new Employee();
+        fred.setFirstName("Fred");
+        fred.setLastName("Bloggs");
+        fred.setGender(Gender.M);
+        fred.setDepartment(depDevelopment);
+
+        Integer fredId = employeeDao.createEmployee(fred);
+        fred = employeeDao.openEmployee(fredId);
+
+        
+        Employee emma = new Employee();
+        emma.setFirstName("Emma");
+        emma.setLastName("White");
+        emma.setGender(Gender.F);
+        emma.setDepartment(depSales);
+        
+        Integer emmaId = employeeDao.createEmployee(emma);
+        emma = employeeDao.openEmployee(emmaId);
+        
+
+        System.out.println("*** updateEmployees ***");
+        
+        peter.setPhoneNumber("+49-7531-457160");
+        employeeDao.updateEmployee(peter);
+        
+        fred.setPhoneNumber("+49-5555-505050");
+        employeeDao.updateEmployee(fred);
+        
+        emma.setPhoneNumber("+49-040-125486");
+        employeeDao.updateEmployee(emma);
+
+        System.out.println("*** List employees ***");
+        
+        List<Employee> employees = employeeDao.getEmployees();
+        for (Iterator<Employee> iterator = employees.iterator(); iterator.hasNext();) {
+			Employee employee = iterator.next();
+			System.out.println(employee);
+		}
+        
+        System.out.println("*** List departments ***");
+
+        List<Department> departments = employeeDao.getDepartments();
+        for (Iterator<Department> iterator = departments.iterator(); iterator.hasNext();) {
+			Department department = iterator.next();
+			System.out.println(department);
+		}
+
+    }
+
+    private static void clearDatabase() {
+        // Delete all Employees (no constraints)
+        
+        EmpireTemplate empireTemplate = ctx.getBean("empireTemplate", EmpireTemplate.class);
+        empireTemplate.executeDelete(sampleDb.EMPLOYEES, sampleDb.createCommand());
+        empireTemplate.executeDelete(sampleDb.DEPARTMENTS, sampleDb.createCommand());
+		
+	}
+
+
+
+
+	public static void setupDatabase() {
+		if (!databaseExists()) {
+			createDatabase();
+		}
+	}
+	
+
+	public static boolean databaseExists() {
+		try {
+			DBDatabase db = sampleDb;
+			if (db.getTables() == null || db.getTables().isEmpty()) {
+				throw new AssertionError(
+						"There are no tables in this database!");
+			}
+			DBCommand cmd = db.createCommand();
+			if (cmd == null) {
+				throw new AssertionError("The DBCommand object is null.");
+			}
+			DBTable t = db.getTables().get(0);
+			DBColumnExpr COUNT = t.count();
+			
+			cmd.select(COUNT);
+			
+			EmpireTemplate empireTemplate = ctx.getBean("empireTemplate", EmpireTemplate.class);
+			return (empireTemplate.queryForInteger(cmd, COUNT, -1) >= 0);
+		} catch (Exception e) {
+			return false;
+		}
+	}
+
+
+	private static void createDatabase() {
+
+		// create DLL for Database Definition
+		final DBSQLScript script = new DBSQLScript();
+		final DBDatabaseDriver driver = sampleDb.getDriver();
+		sampleDb.getCreateDDLScript(driver, script);
+
+		// Show DLL Statement
+		System.out.println(script.toString());
+		// Execute Script
+		EmpireTemplate empireTemplate = ctx.getBean("empireTemplate", EmpireTemplate.class);
+		empireTemplate.execute(new ConnectionCallback<Object>() {
+
+			@Override
+            public Object doInConnection(Connection con) throws SQLException,
+					DataAccessException {
+        				script.executeAll(driver, con, false);
+        				return null;
+        			}
+		});
+
+	}
+
+
+
+	static GenericApplicationContext getContext() {
+        log.info("Creating Spring Application Context ...");
+        GenericApplicationContext ctx = new GenericApplicationContext();
+        XmlBeanDefinitionReader reader = new XmlBeanDefinitionReader(ctx);
+        reader.loadBeanDefinitions(new ClassPathResource("/example2/applicationContext-employee.xml"));
+
+        ctx.refresh();
+        return ctx;
+    }
+    
+    
+    
+}

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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+  Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+  or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+  distributed with this work for additional information
+  regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+  to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+  "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+  with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+  
+   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+  
+  Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+  software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+  "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+  KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+  specific language governing permissions and limitations
+  under the License.
+-->
+<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
+       xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
+       xmlns:tx="http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx"
+       xmlns:aop="http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop"
+       xsi:schemaLocation="
+       	http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-2.5.xsd
+       	http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx/spring-tx-2.5.xsd
+		http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop/spring-aop-2.5.xsd">
+
+
+    <!-- one option is to use a class from spring that will read the properties file
+         and replaces the ${...} placeholders with the appropriate values -->
+    <bean class="org.springframework.beans.factory.config.PropertyPlaceholderConfigurer">
+        <property name="locations">
+            <value>classpath:/settings.properties</value>
+        </property>
+    </bean>
+
+    <!-- Data Source / DB Settings -->
+    <bean id="dataSource" class="org.apache.commons.dbcp.BasicDataSource" destroy-method="close">
+        <property name="driverClassName" value="${jdbc.driverClass}"/>
+        <property name="url" value="${jdbc.url}"/>
+        <property name="username" value="${jdbc.username}"/>
+        <property name="password" value="${jdbc.password}"/>
+    </bean>
+
+    <!-- Transaction manager for a single JDBC DataSource (alternative to JTA) -->
+    <bean id="transactionManager" class="org.springframework.jdbc.datasource.DataSourceTransactionManager">
+        <constructor-arg ref="dataSource"/>
+    </bean>
+    <bean id="transactionTemplate" class="org.springframework.transaction.support.TransactionTemplate">
+        <property name="transactionManager" ref="transactionManager"/>
+    </bean>
+
+    <!-- @Transactional -->
+    <tx:annotation-driven transaction-manager="transactionManager"/>
+
+    <!-- Empire-DB classes -->
+    
+    <!-- application dao/services -->
+    <bean id="empireApp" class="org.apache.empire.spring.example1.EmpireAppImpl" parent="empireDao"/>
+
+    
+    <bean id="empireDb" class="org.apache.empire.spring.DBDatabaseFactoryBean">
+    	<property name="driverClass" value="${empire.driver}"/>
+    	<property name="schema" value="${empire.schemaname}"/>
+    	<property name="databaseClass" value="org.apache.empire.spring.example1.SampleDB"/>
+    </bean>
+    
+    <bean id="empireDao" abstract="true">
+    	<property name="database" ref="empireDb"/>
+    	<property name="empireTemplate" ref="empireTemplate"/>
+    </bean>
+    
+    
+    <bean id="empireTemplate" class="org.apache.empire.spring.EmpireTemplate">
+    	<property name="dataSource" ref="dataSource"/>
+    </bean>
+    
+    
+    
+    
+    
+    
+    
+    
+    
+    
+    
+    
+    
+    
+</beans>
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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+  Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+  or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+  distributed with this work for additional information
+  regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+  to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+  "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+  with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+  
+   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+  
+  Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+  software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+  "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+  KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+  specific language governing permissions and limitations
+  under the License.
+-->
+<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
+       xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
+       xmlns:tx="http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx"
+       xmlns:aop="http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop"
+       xsi:schemaLocation="
+       	http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-2.5.xsd
+       	http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx/spring-tx-2.5.xsd
+		http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop/spring-aop-2.5.xsd">
+
+
+    <!-- one option is to use a class from spring that will read the properties file
+         and replaces the ${...} placeholders with the appropriate values -->
+    <bean class="org.springframework.beans.factory.config.PropertyPlaceholderConfigurer">
+        <property name="locations">
+            <value>classpath:/settings.properties</value>
+        </property>
+    </bean>
+
+    <!-- Data Source / DB Settings -->
+    <bean id="dataSource" class="org.apache.commons.dbcp.BasicDataSource" destroy-method="close">
+        <property name="driverClassName" value="${jdbc.driverClass}"/>
+        <property name="url" value="${jdbc.url}"/>
+        <property name="username" value="${jdbc.username}"/>
+        <property name="password" value="${jdbc.password}"/>
+    </bean>
+
+    <!-- Transaction manager for a single JDBC DataSource (alternative to JTA) -->
+    <bean id="transactionManager" class="org.springframework.jdbc.datasource.DataSourceTransactionManager">
+        <constructor-arg ref="dataSource"/>
+    </bean>
+    <bean id="transactionTemplate" class="org.springframework.transaction.support.TransactionTemplate">
+        <property name="transactionManager" ref="transactionManager"/>
+    </bean>
+
+    <!-- @Transactional -->
+    <tx:annotation-driven transaction-manager="transactionManager"/>
+
+    <!-- Empire-DB classes -->
+    
+    <!-- application dao/services -->
+    <bean id="employeeDao" class="org.apache.empire.spring.example2.EmployeeDaoImpl" parent="empireDao"/>
+
+    
+    <bean id="sampleDb" class="org.apache.empire.spring.DBDatabaseFactoryBean">
+    	<property name="driverClass" value="${empire.driver}"/>
+    	<property name="schema" value="${empire.schemaname}"/>
+    	<property name="databaseClass" value="org.apache.empire.spring.example1.SampleDB"/>
+    </bean>
+    
+    <bean id="empireDao" abstract="true">
+    	<property name="database" ref="sampleDb"/>
+    	<property name="empireTemplate" ref="empireTemplate"/>
+    </bean>
+    
+    
+    <bean id="empireTemplate" class="org.apache.empire.spring.EmpireTemplate">
+    	<property name="dataSource" ref="dataSource"/>
+    </bean>
+    
+    
+    
+    
+    
+    
+    
+</beans>
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 jdbc.password=
 
 empire.driver= org.apache.empire.db.hsql.DBDatabaseDriverHSql
-empire.schemaname=DBSAMPLE1
+empire.schemaname=
 
 
 ## Derby settings (tested)

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 			<artifactId>empire-db</artifactId>
 		</dependency>
 		<dependency>
-		    <groupId>hsqldb</groupId>
-		    <artifactId>hsqldb</artifactId>
-		</dependency> 
-
-		<dependency>
             <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
             <artifactId>spring-context</artifactId>
             <version>${spring.version}</version>
@@ -54,11 +49,6 @@
             <version>${spring.version}</version>
 		</dependency>
 
-        <dependency>
-            <groupId>commons-dbcp</groupId>
-            <artifactId>commons-dbcp</artifactId>
-            <version>1.2.2</version>
-        </dependency>
 		
 	</dependencies>
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-/*
- * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
- * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
- * distributed with this work for additional information
- * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
- * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
- * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
- * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
- *
- *  http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
- *
- * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
- * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
- * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
- * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
- * specific language governing permissions and limitations
- * under the License.
- */
-package org.apache.empire.spring.example1;
-
-
-/**
- * This is the interface to the application. It is usually some high level interface; for this basic
- * example this is the dao object.
- *
- */
-public interface EmpireApp {
-
-    void clearDatabase();
-
-    void setupDatabase();
-    
-    Integer insertDepartment(String departmentName, String businessUnit);
-
-    Integer insertEmployee(String firstName, String lastName, String gender, int departmentId);
-
-    void updateEmployee(int idPers, String phoneNumber);
-
-    void doQuery(QueryType type);
-
-    public enum QueryType
-    {
-	    Reader,
-        BeanList,
-	    XmlDocument
-	}
-}

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-/*
- * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
- * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
- * distributed with this work for additional information
- * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
- * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
- * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
- * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
- *
- *  http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
- *
- * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
- * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
- * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
- * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
- * specific language governing permissions and limitations
- * under the License.
- */
-package org.apache.empire.spring.example1;
-
-import java.sql.Connection;
-import java.sql.SQLException;
-import java.util.HashMap;
-import java.util.List;
-import java.util.Map;
-
-import org.apache.empire.db.DBColumn;
-import org.apache.empire.db.DBColumnExpr;
-import org.apache.empire.db.DBCommand;
-import org.apache.empire.db.DBDatabase;
-import org.apache.empire.db.DBDatabaseDriver;
-import org.apache.empire.db.DBReader;
-import org.apache.empire.db.DBRecord;
-import org.apache.empire.db.DBRecordData;
-import org.apache.empire.db.DBSQLScript;
-import org.apache.empire.db.DBTable;
-import org.apache.empire.db.derby.DBDatabaseDriverDerby;
-import org.apache.empire.db.h2.DBDatabaseDriverH2;
-import org.apache.empire.db.hsql.DBDatabaseDriverHSql;
-import org.apache.empire.db.postgresql.DBDatabaseDriverPostgreSQL;
-import org.apache.empire.spring.DBReaderExtractor;
-import org.apache.empire.spring.DBRecordCallbackHandler;
-import org.apache.empire.spring.DBRecordMapper;
-import org.apache.empire.spring.EmpireDaoSupport;
-import org.apache.empire.xml.XMLWriter;
-import org.springframework.dao.DataAccessException;
-import org.springframework.jdbc.core.ConnectionCallback;
-import org.springframework.transaction.annotation.Transactional;
-import org.w3c.dom.Document;
-
-/**
- *
- */
-public class EmpireAppImpl extends EmpireDaoSupport implements EmpireApp {
-
-	@Transactional
-	public void clearDatabase() {
-		SampleDB db = getDatabase();
-
-		DBCommand cmd = db.createCommand();
-		// Delete all Employees (no constraints)
-		getEmpireTemplate().executeDelete(db.EMPLOYEES, cmd);
-		// Delete all Departments (no constraints)
-		getEmpireTemplate().executeDelete(db.DEPARTMENTS, cmd);
-	}
-
-
-	@Transactional
-	public Integer insertDepartment(String departmentName, String businessUnit) {
-		SampleDB db = getDatabase();
-
-		DBRecord rec = new DBRecord();
-		rec.create(db.DEPARTMENTS);
-		rec.setValue(db.DEPARTMENTS.NAME, departmentName);
-		rec.setValue(db.DEPARTMENTS.BUSINESS_UNIT, businessUnit);
-
-		getEmpireTemplate().updateRecord(rec);
-		// Return Department ID
-		return rec.getInt(db.DEPARTMENTS.DEPARTMENT_ID);
-	}
-
-	@Transactional
-	public Integer insertEmployee(String firstName, String lastName,
-			String gender, int departmentId) {
-		SampleDB db = getDatabase();
-
-		DBRecord rec = new DBRecord();
-		rec.create(db.EMPLOYEES);
-		rec.setValue(db.EMPLOYEES.FIRSTNAME, firstName);
-		rec.setValue(db.EMPLOYEES.LASTNAME, lastName);
-		rec.setValue(db.EMPLOYEES.GENDER, gender);
-		rec.setValue(db.EMPLOYEES.DEPARTMENT_ID, departmentId);
-		getEmpireTemplate().updateRecord(rec);
-		// Return Employee ID
-		return rec.getInt(db.EMPLOYEES.EMPLOYEE_ID);
-	}
-
-	@Transactional
-	public void updateEmployee(int idPers, String phoneNumber) {
-		if (getEmployee(idPers) == null) {
-			// if you like more verbose exceptions for the app
-			throw new IllegalArgumentException(
-					"The specified employee does not exist.");
-		}
-
-		SampleDB db = getDatabase();
-
-		DBRecord rec = getEmpireTemplate().openRecord(db.EMPLOYEES, idPers);
-		// Set
-		rec.setValue(db.EMPLOYEES.PHONE_NUMBER, phoneNumber);
-		getEmpireTemplate().updateRecord(rec);
-	}
-
-	@Transactional(readOnly = true)
-	public void doQuery(QueryType type) {
-		SampleDB db = getDatabase();
-
-		// Define the query
-		DBCommand cmd = db.createCommand();
-		// Define shortcuts for tables used - not necessary but convenient
-		final SampleDB.Employees EMP = db.EMPLOYEES;
-		final SampleDB.Departments DEP = db.DEPARTMENTS;
-
-		// The following expression concats lastname + ', ' + firstname
-		final DBColumnExpr EMPLOYEE_FULLNAME = EMP.LASTNAME.append(", ")
-				.append(EMP.FIRSTNAME).as("FULL_NAME");
-
-		// The following expression extracts the extension number from the phone
-		// field
-		// e.g. substr(PHONE_NUMBER,
-		// length(PHONE_NUMBER)-instr(reverse(PHONE_NUMBER), '-')+2) AS
-		// PHONE_EXTENSION
-		// Hint: Since the reverse() function is not supported by HSQLDB there
-		// is special treatment for HSQL
-		final DBColumnExpr PHONE_LAST_DASH;
-		if (db.getDriver() instanceof DBDatabaseDriverHSql
-				|| db.getDriver() instanceof DBDatabaseDriverDerby
-				|| db.getDriver() instanceof DBDatabaseDriverH2)
-			PHONE_LAST_DASH = EMP.PHONE_NUMBER.indexOf("-",
-					EMP.PHONE_NUMBER.indexOf("-").plus(1)).plus(1); // HSQLDB
-																	// only
-		else
-			PHONE_LAST_DASH = EMP.PHONE_NUMBER.length()
-					.minus(EMP.PHONE_NUMBER.reverse().indexOf("-")).plus(2);
-		final DBColumnExpr PHONE_EXT_NUMBER = EMP.PHONE_NUMBER.substring(
-				PHONE_LAST_DASH).as("PHONE_EXTENSION");
-
-		// DBColumnExpr genderExpr =
-		// cmd.select(EMP.GENDER.decode(EMP.GENDER.getOptions()).as(EMP.GENDER.getName()));
-		// Select required columns
-		cmd.select(EMP.EMPLOYEE_ID, EMPLOYEE_FULLNAME);
-		if (db.getDriver() instanceof DBDatabaseDriverPostgreSQL) {
-			// postgres does not support the substring expression
-			cmd.select(EMP.GENDER, EMP.PHONE_NUMBER);
-		} else {
-			cmd.select(EMP.GENDER, EMP.PHONE_NUMBER, PHONE_EXT_NUMBER);
-
-		}
-		cmd.select(DEP.NAME.as("DEPARTMENT"));
-		cmd.select(DEP.BUSINESS_UNIT);
-		cmd.join(EMP.DEPARTMENT_ID, DEP.DEPARTMENT_ID);
-		// Set constraints and order
-		cmd.where(EMP.LASTNAME.length().isGreaterThan(0));
-		cmd.orderBy(EMP.LASTNAME, EMP.FIRSTNAME);
-
-		// Query Records and print output
-		try {
-			// Open Reader
-			System.out.println("Running Query:");
-			System.out.println(cmd.getSelect());
-			// Print output
-			System.out.println("---------------------------------");
-			switch (type) {
-			case BeanList:
-				// Text-Output by iterating through all records.
-				DBRecordCallbackHandler readerImpl = new DBRecordCallbackHandler() {
-
-					public void processRecord(DBRecordData reader) {
-						System.out.println(reader.getString(EMP.EMPLOYEE_ID)
-								+ "\t"
-								+ reader.getString(EMPLOYEE_FULLNAME)
-								+ "\t"
-								+ EMP.GENDER.getOptions().get(
-										reader.getString(EMP.GENDER)) + "\t"
-								+ reader.getString(PHONE_EXT_NUMBER) + "\t"
-								+ reader.getString(DEP.NAME));
-
-					}
-				};
-				getEmpireTemplate().query(cmd, readerImpl);
-				break;
-			case Reader:
-				// Text-Output using a list of Java Beans supplied by the
-				// DBReader
-				DBReaderExtractor<List<SampleBean>> beanListImpl = new DBReaderExtractor<List<SampleBean>>() {
-
-					public List<SampleBean> process(DBReader reader) {
-						return reader.getBeanList(SampleBean.class);
-					}
-				};
-				List<SampleBean> beanList = getEmpireTemplate().query(cmd,
-						beanListImpl);
-				System.out.println(String.valueOf(beanList.size())
-						+ " SampleBeans returned from Query.");
-				for (SampleBean b : beanList) {
-					System.out.println(b.toString());
-				}
-				break;
-			case XmlDocument:
-				// XML Output
-				XmlDocumentExtractor xmlImpl = new XmlDocumentExtractor();
-				Document doc = getEmpireTemplate().query(cmd, xmlImpl);
-				// Print XML Document to System.out
-				XMLWriter.debug(doc);
-				break;
-			}
-
-		} finally {
-
-			// always close Reader
-
-			// reader is closed in EmpireTemplate's methods
-
-			// reader.close();
-		}
-	}
-
-	public Map<Object, Object> getDepartment(int id) {
-		SampleDB db = getDatabase();
-		return get(db.DEPARTMENTS, id);
-	}
-
-	public Map<Object, Object> getEmployee(int id) {
-		SampleDB db = getDatabase();
-		return get(db.EMPLOYEES, id);
-	}
-
-	private Map<Object, Object> get(DBTable table, int pk) {
-
-		SampleDB db = getDatabase();
-
-		DBCommand cmd = db.createCommand();
-		cmd.select(table.getColumns());
-		cmd.where(table.getPrimaryKey().getColumns()[0].is(pk)); // i know there
-																	// is just
-																	// one
-																	// pk-column
-																	// ;-)
-		Map<Object, Object> dep = getEmpireTemplate().queryForObject(cmd,
-				new RowToObjectMapDataMapper(table));
-
-		return dep;
-	}
-
-	public static class XmlDocumentExtractor implements
-			DBReaderExtractor<Document> {
-
-		public Document process(DBReader reader) {
-			return reader.getXmlDocument();
-		}
-
-	}
-
-	public static class RowToObjectMapDataMapper implements
-			DBRecordMapper<Map<Object, Object>> {
-
-		DBTable table;
-
-		public RowToObjectMapDataMapper(DBTable table) {
-			super();
-			this.table = table;
-		}
-
-		public Map<Object, Object> mapRecord(DBRecordData record, int rowNum) {
-			Map<Object, Object> dep = new HashMap<Object, Object>();
-			for (DBColumn col : table.getColumns()) {
-				dep.put(col.getName(), record.getValue(col));
-			}
-			return dep;
-		}
-
-	}
-
-	public boolean databaseExists() {
-		Connection conn = getConnection();
-		try {
-			DBDatabase db = getDatabase();
-			if (db.getTables() == null || db.getTables().isEmpty()) {
-				throw new AssertionError(
-						"There are no tables in this database!");
-			}
-			DBCommand cmd = db.createCommand();
-			if (cmd == null) {
-				throw new AssertionError("The DBCommand object is null.");
-			}
-			DBTable t = db.getTables().get(0);
-			cmd.select(t.count());
-			return (db.querySingleInt(cmd, -1, conn) >= 0);
-		} catch (Exception e) {
-			return false;
-		}
-	}
-
-	public void initializeDatabase() {
-		if (!databaseExists()) {
-			createDatabase();
-		}
-	}
-
-	@Transactional
-	public void setupDatabase() {
-		initializeDatabase();
-	}
-
-	public void createDatabase() {
-
-		// create DLL for Database Definition
-		final DBSQLScript script = new DBSQLScript();
-		final DBDatabaseDriver driver = getDatabase().getDriver();
-		getDatabase().getCreateDDLScript(driver, script);
-
-		// Show DLL Statement
-		System.out.println(script.toString());
-		// Execute Script
-		getEmpireTemplate().execute(new ConnectionCallback<Object>() {
-
-			public Object doInConnection(Connection con) throws SQLException,
-					DataAccessException {
-				script.executeAll(driver, con, false);
-				return null;
-			}
-		});
-
-	}
-
-}

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-/*
- * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
- * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
- * distributed with this work for additional information
- * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
- * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
- * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
- * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
- *
- *  http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
- *
- * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
- * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
- * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
- * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
- * specific language governing permissions and limitations
- * under the License.
- */
-package org.apache.empire.spring.example1;
-
-
-/**
- * The SampleBean class is used to demonstrate JavaBean support for SQL-Queries.
- * The SampleBean is used in the SampleApp's queryRecords function.
- */
-public class SampleBean
-{
-    private int    employeeId;
-    private String fullName;
-    private String gender;
-    private String phoneNumber;
-    private String department;
-    private String businessUnit;
-
-    /*
-     * Uncomment this if you want to use constructor instead of setters
-     * However, number of arguments and data types must match query!
-     *
-    public SampleBean(int employeeId, String fullName, String gender, String phoneNumber, String department, String businessUnit)
-    {
-        this.employeeId = employeeId;
-        this.fullName = fullName;
-        this.gender = gender;
-        this.phoneNumber = phoneNumber;
-        this.department = department;
-        this.businessUnit = businessUnit;
-    }
-    */
-    
-    public int getEmployeeId()
-    {
-        return employeeId;
-    }
-
-    public void setEmployeeId(int employeeId)
-    {
-        this.employeeId = employeeId;
-    }
-
-    public String getFullName()
-    {
-        return fullName;
-    }
-
-    public void setFullName(String fullName)
-    {
-        this.fullName = fullName;
-    }
-
-    public String getGender()
-    {
-        return gender;
-    }
-
-    public void setGender(String gender)
-    {
-        this.gender = gender;
-    }
-
-    public String getPhoneNumber()
-    {
-        return phoneNumber;
-    }
-
-    public void setPhoneNumber(String phoneNumber)
-    {
-        this.phoneNumber = phoneNumber;
-    }
-
-    public String getDepartment()
-    {
-        return department;
-    }
-
-    public void setDepartment(String department)
-    {
-        this.department = department;
-    }
-
-    public String getBusinessUnit()
-    {
-        return businessUnit;
-    }
-
-    public void setBusinessUnit(String businessUnit)
-    {
-        this.businessUnit = businessUnit;
-    }
-
-    @Override
-    public String toString()
-    {
-        StringBuffer buf = new StringBuffer();
-        buf.append(employeeId);
-        buf.append("\t");
-        buf.append(fullName);
-        buf.append("\t");
-        buf.append(gender);
-        buf.append("\t");
-        buf.append(department);
-        buf.append("\t");
-        buf.append(businessUnit);
-        return buf.toString();
-    }
-    
-}