Developer Section

This page provides useful information for developers. Here you can find information about various alternatives to integrate BaseX into your own project.

Integrate & Contribute

• Eclipse: Check out, compile and run BaseX from within Eclipse
• Maven: Embed BaseX into your own projects
• Releases: Official releases, snapshots, old versions
• Translations: Contribute a new translation to BaseX

Web Technology

Added: WebDAV was re-added as a RESTXQ application.

• RESTXQ: Write web services with XQuery
• REST: Access and update databases via HTTP requests
• WebDAV: Access databases and their resources as a file system
• WebSockets: Bidirectional client/server communication
• Permissions: Permission layer for web applications

APIs

• Clients: Communicate with BaseX using C#, PHP, Python, Perl, C, …
• Java Examples: Code examples for developing with BaseX
• XQJ API: Closed source, implemented by Charles Foster (the XQJ interface is specified for XQuery 1.0)
• XQuery for Scala API, based on XQJ and written by Dino Fancellu

Extensions

• Service/daemon: Install BaseX server as a service
• Docker: Run BaseX in a container

Code, Questions, Bugs

• The Source Code is available on GitHub.
• For questions, bug reports and feature requests, please write to our mailing list.
• The Issue Tracker contains confirmed bugs and feature requests.

Changelog

• Added: WebDAV was re-added as a RESTXQ application.

• Removed: WebDAV implementation, due to outdated Milton library and compromising dependencies.