How can I connet to DB2 via Xcode

[azadeh.k]

I'm a fresh Iphone programmer . I have a large amount of data in DB2 on my server
I want to write program for getting data form database and visualize data on the Ipod app

[garyk1968]

Originally Posted by azadeh.k

I'm a fresh Iphone programmer . I have a large amount of data in DB2 on my server
I want to write program for getting data form database and visualize data on the Ipod app

Your best bet is to write something server side which can handle http requests via a webservice or REST format which will query the DB2 database and return the data in either XML or JSON. It means you can build and test the actual data provider part of the app and then plug in your code on the iphone using NSURLConnection and a parser (look at TouchJSON for JSON for example).

[testing]

Am I right that a Webservice is the only way? A mixture of native/web app would also an oppurtinity, but a webservice would be also needed ...

How does the architecture on the server side could look like? We need a Webserver and some framework or script, which can access the database and provide xml-files. But which is suitable? I think there should be already some implementations on that.

Thanks for your reply.