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Coding Basics

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Coding Basics

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Last Updated: April 14, 2026
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To use XCC, there are several basic things you need to do in your Java code:

Import the needed libraries.
Set up the ContentSource object to authenticate against MarkLogic Server.
Create a new Session object.
Add a Request to the session object.
Submit the request and get back a ResultSequence object from MarkLogic Server.
Do something with the results (print them out, for example).
Close the session.

The following are Java code samples that illustrate these basic design patterns:

package com.marklogic.xcc.examples;
import com.marklogic.xcc.ContentSource;
import com.marklogic.xcc.ContentSourceFactory;
import com.marklogic.xcc.Session;
import com.marklogic.xcc.Request;
import com.marklogic.xcc.ResultSequence;
URI uri = new URI("xcc://user:pass@localhost:8000/mycontent");
ContentSource contentSource = 
          ContentSourceFactory.newContentSource (uri);
Session session = contentSource.newSession();
Request request = session.newAdhocQuery ("\"Hello World\"");
ResultSequence rs = session.submitRequest (request);
System.out.println (rs.asString());
session.close();

Note: Session objects are not thread safe. A Session object should not be used concurrently by multiple threads.