This guide describes how to retrieve data through TDV using a client application. Client interfaces allow you to access data through TDV and consume it in your client applications. After you use TDV to define and publish views and other resource objects, you need to access that data so that you can perform data entry or complex data analysis on the data. Client applications can retrieve data from published resources in TDV through the following access mechanisms:

Before you can access and introspect underlying data sources, you must set up connections between your data sources and TDV. After using Studio to design and publish your virtual data resources, you need to set up the client interface connections to access those resources in TDV.

The exact methods that you use to connect to your published data resources in TDV vary depending on your system architecture, what the applications are, and how they need to connect to TDV. For example, your organization might need to write a Java application that uses ODBC to access the data through TDV. Another organization might need to create a Web application that uses SOAP to access the data through TDV.

Because the exact requirements of your organization are not known to us, we can only provide this guide as generalized information advising you on the steps that might be required. You need to analyze the advice in this guide and determine how to modify the steps to make them work for your organization.