Executive summary

SmartGov-Connectivity: Database Connectivity for SmartGov services

Electronic services developed using the SmartGov platform may need to interact with external databases, used by the organisation for information storage and retrieval. In most cases, this interaction will have the two following forms:

• retrieving values from registries to create documents with pre-populated fields, that will be displayed to the end-user.
• storing the elements of the submitted XML document into database table fields for further manipulation.

In this document, database connectivity for SmartGov services is exemplified through a simple service, in which a citizen declares the car (s)he owns. The rest of the document is organised as follows: in section 2 the car declaration service is described and the structure of the registry and document storage table is outlined; in section 3 the method for retrieving registry values to create pre-populated documents is detailed. Finally, in section 4 the method for storing submitted documents to a database is illustrated.

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Last updated: October 2003