At this point you should already be familiar with Eclipse. But if you are not, Eclipse is the de facto integrated development environment (IDE) for developing Java applications. It provides comprehensive support for Java technologies, as well as a platform for plug-in tools to extend its capabilities. Teradata Plug-in for Eclipse extends the Eclipse IDE with plug-ins that support Teradata application developers.

Teradata’s latest and greatest Eclipse offering has been released, and is available in the Teradata Developer Exchange download section (Eclipse_13.01.00).  Further, the 13.01.00 release builds on the 13.00.00 offering by boasting increased functionality.

This article describes usage tips on how to load/unload Unicode data with the UTF8 and UTF16 Teradata client session character sets using Teradata Parallel Transporter (TPT).

As of this writing, Teradata Parallel Transporter supports Unicode only on network-attached platforms. 

In the last article, it was shown how to create Java Bean Wrapper classes that can be called from a Spring Data Access Object (DAO) using the Java Bean Wrapper Wizard.

This article will demonstrate how to tie Java Bean Wrapper classes together using the Spring DAO Wizard to create a reusable data access layer for a business service. Also it will be shown how to create an automated unit test for your DAO.

SQL Assistant Java Edition is an information discovery tool that retrieves data from Teradata Database systems and allows the data to be manipulated and stored on the desktop. It is built on top of the Eclipse Rich Client Platform (RCP). This allows the product to take advantage of the RCP framework for building and deploying native GUI applications to a variety of desktop operating systems. SQL Assistant Java Edition can be run on Windows, Linux, and Mac OSX operating systemts.