Edward Swing wrote: > We're doing something like this already. Specifically, we are using a > Java client to retrieve, query, and update wiki pages. We have written a > Java class that wraps the api.php, and accesses it through web calls > (opening URL connections, parsing XML, etc.). > > Since the database is on the wiki server, and our application may be on > a different server, we do not access the database directly. If you > wanted to do that, I would probably get the SQL schema from the > documentation and use JDBC calls.
Accessing via api.php is much more stable though. Directly accessing the database for reading/editing is discouraged. _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
