Developer Section

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

Integrate & Contribute

• Eclipse: Compile and run BaseX from within Eclipse
• Git: Learn how to work with Git
• Maven: Embed BaseX into your own projects
• Releases: Official releases, snapshots, old versions
• Translations: Contribute a new translation to BaseX!

Web Technology

• RESTXQ: Write web services with XQuery
• REST: Access and update databases via HTTP requests
• WebDAV: Access databases from your file system

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 (restricted to XQuery 3.0)
• XQuery for Scala API, based on XQJ and written by Dino Fancellu

Extensions

• Service/daemon: Install BaseX server as a service
• Android: Running BaseX with Android
• macOS: How to build a standalone macOS application

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.