The API makes it easy to write, read, delete, and find documents in a MarkLogic database.

The Java API supports the following core features of the MarkLogic database:

• Write and read binary, JSON, text, and XML documents.
• Query data structure trees, marked-up text, and all the hybrids in between those extremes.
• Project values and tuples from hierarchical documents and aggregate over them.
• Patch documents with partial updates.
• Match documents against alerting rules expressed as queries.
• Use Optimistic Locking to detect contention without creating locks on the server.
• Execute ACID modifications so the change either succeeds or throws an exception.
• Execute multi-statement transactions so changes to multiple documents succeed or fail together.

For people working with MarkLogic 8 EA

mvn test-compile sh src/test/resources/boot-test.sh mvn test

The following resources introduce and document the Java API:

• The Java API in Five Minutes
• Java Application Developer's Guide
• JavaDoc

To use the Java API, either add a Maven dependency or download the jar and its dependencies:

http://developer.marklogic.com/products/java

Of course, you'll also need to install the database -- which you can do for free with the developer license:

https://developer.marklogic.com/free-developer

You can build the API in the same way as any Maven project on git:

1. Clone the java-client-api repository on your machine.
2. Execute a Maven build in the directory containing the pom.xml file.

You might want to skip the tests until you have configured a test database and REST server:

mvn package -Dmaven.test.skip=true