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The MarkLogic Java API provides access to core MarkLogic database and search functionality. It allows Java developers to get going quickly, enabling them to re-use existing knowledge, skills, libraries, tools, and development environments.

Features

The API provides interfaces for

• Document CRUD and management, including support for
  • JSON, XML, Binary, and text documents
  • Organization via Collections and Directories
  • Metadata (properties, permissions, quality, and last-modified time)
• Full-text search, including
  • Result snippeting, paging, and facets
  • Configurable search input string parsing
  • Advanced search specification and configuration, including support for
    • Keyword, phrase, value, near, and boolean searches
    • Control of stemming, case-sensitivity, collation, and decompounding
    • Control of diacritics and punctuation handling
  • Tokenization and stemming for 13 languages
  • Spelling dictionaries and thesauri
• Multi-statement (and multi-document) transaction management
• Analytics, including values and aggregates
• Security, including
  • API-level security via seperate read, write, and administrative access control
  • Management of document-level (and collection/directory?) privileges

It is built on top of the MarkLogic REST API.

Tutorials and Samples

• The Java API in 5 Minutes
• Learning the MarkLogic Java API
• Writing and Searching POJOs
• Sample MarkLogic Java API Application

Requirements

The MarkLogic Java API runs on Java 6 and later and requires MarkLogic 6 or later as well.

See Also

MarkLogic also provides a separate API for those familiar with XQuery that would like to either embed or invoke XQuery code from with in Java. See XCC for details and XCC downloads.