JQEE presents a high-level interface on top of the lower-level XDBC classes. While not suitable for every job, the high-level interface makes common tasks -- such as executing a query and retrieving a sequence of strings -- into two liners. Within JQEE you'll find a Query class representing queries and a QueryExecuter that runs them with its various execute() methods. For example:

XDMPConnection con = new XDMPConnection("localhost", 8004); QueryExecuter exec = new QueryExecuter(con);

Query q1 = new Query("1+1"); int answer1 = exec.executeInt(q1); // the value 2

Query q2 = new Query(","); q2.setNodesReturnedAs(Query.JDOM); Object[] answer5 = exec.execute(q2); // two JDOM nodes