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Back again after a bit of an absence. The good news is that I’ve completed a full API for accessing QuickBooks seamlessly with Java. With this package, it becomes as easy as in the Visual Studio solutions to interface with QuickBooks.

No need for JACOB heroics (Although a big nod goes to Theoden for pointing a bunch of people in the right direction). You can either build a QBXML object using the API, or use your existing qbXML code directly. The program will handle communications, and return QB’s response as a qbXML string to be parsed in your XML parser of choice.

Here’s a quick example of the code in action. This would be the procedure for adding a new customer:
//**********************************************//
//Create customerAdd request
CustomerAdd newCust = new CustomerAdd();
newCust.Name = “John’s Pizzeria”;
newCust.FirstName = “John”;
newCust.LastName = “Smith”;
newCust.CompanyName = “John’s Pizza”;
newCust.Phone = “555-555-5555″;

//Create billing address for this customer
BillAddress newBilling = new BillAddress();
newBilling.Addr1 = “123 Main St”;
newBilling.Addr2 = “Suite #2″;
newBilling.City = “Beverly Hills”;
newBilling.State = “CA”;
newBilling.PostalCode = “90210″;

//Add it to the customer
newCust.BillAddress = newBilling;

//Since we can add many at the same time, we create a list of new customers to add
ArrayList listOfNewCustomers = new ArrayList();

//Add our new customer to the list
listOfNewCustomers.add(newCust);

QBXML query = new QBXML(); //Initialize Query
query.QBXMLMsgsRq = new QBXMLMsgsRq(); //Create Message Request
query.QBXMLMsgsRq.CustomerAddRq = new CustomerAddRq(); //Initialize customer request.
query.QBXMLMsgsRq.CustomerAddRq.CustomerAdd = listOfNewCustomers; //Add the list of new customer

//Add a requestID. Don’t forget this step!!! QB needs a requestId and onError attribute for all requests.
query.QBXMLMsgsRq.onError = “stopOnError”;
query.QBXMLMsgsRq.CustomerAddRq.requestID = “15″; //Set a request ID.

String asString = query.toString(); //This is a human readable qbXML String.

try {
JQBConnector c = new JQBConnector(“C:/Release/egqb.exe”,”C:\\Test.QBW”); //Initialize Connector and company file.
String ret = c.send(asString); //Send qbXML message to QB.
System.out.println(ret); //Print result.
} catch (JQBException ex) {
ex.printStackTrace();

}
//******************************************************//

Easy huh? This is what the Java community should have received from Intuit in their SDK.

Questions? lenny (at) dragonpg.com
The API can be obtained at : http://www.dragonpg.com/software/quickbooks/
Take a look at the Java Quickbooks API Documentation here: http://www.dragonpg.com/software/quickbooks/doc/