I am a Java programmer. I have some ideas and want to build an application working on MS OLAP.
How can my Java application talk to MS OLAP? I guess I need a Java driver.
Any info on this is very much appreciated

Thanks for your attention.

You can search for the JDBC driver for SQL Server at
http://msdn.microsoft.com/downloads

-Sue

On Tue, 25 Nov 2003 07:01:22 -0800, "david"
<anonymous (AT) discussions (DOT) microsoft.com> wrote:

I have been using SQL JDBC driver for a long time. I am not quite sur
it is the convenient and effective solution for accessing OLAP data becaus
SQL JDBC driver is a very generic solution for accessing table. For OLA
data, you have different data models...

"david" <anonymous (AT) discussions (DOT) microsoft.com> wrote

That's right, JDBC doesn't give you access to OLAP data. You probably want
to use XML for Analysis.

thanks for this "XML for Analysis" info. did not heard of it before. going to research on it.
just a quick qeustion: is XML for Analysis an implementation that allows me to use Java to
talk MS Olap or a purely generic technology?

thanks again.

"david" <anonymous (AT) discussions (DOT) microsoft.com> wrote

XML for Analysis is an optional platform and language independent API for
Analysis Services 2000 that will have an increasing importance in the
future. It's been around for some time and even has its own newsgroup,
microsoft.public.data.xmlanalysis.