Example <ph conref="../conrefs.dita#prod/productshortname"></ph>-style table function The following simple table function selects rows from a foreign database. Functionstable function example package com.example.hrSchema; import java.sql.*; /** * Sample Table Function for reading the employee table in an * external database. */ public class EmployeeTable { public static ResultSet read() throws SQLException { Connection conn = getConnection(); PreparedStatement ps = conn.prepareStatement( "select * from hrSchema.EmployeeTable" ); return ps.executeQuery(); } protected static Connection getConnection() throws SQLException { String EXTERNAL_DRIVER = "com.mysql.jdbc.Driver"; try { Class.forName( EXTERNAL_DRIVER ); } catch (ClassNotFoundException e) { throw new SQLException( "Could not find class " + EXTERNAL_DRIVER ); } Connection conn = DriverManager.getConnection( "jdbc:mysql://localhost/hr?user=root&password=mysql-passwd" ); return conn; } }