IBM WebSphere Application Server Community Edition provides excellent support for JDBC-enabled databases through a J2CA framework, making it easy for your application to access a backend database. This tutorial describes how you can easily <A HREF="http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/websphere/library/tutorials/0802_krishnasamy/0802_krishnasamy.html?ca=drs-">develop a simple database application</A> for WebSphere Application Server Community Edition V2.0 using the Eclipse development environment with IBM DB2 Express-C, and also illustrates how to integrate and use these three free software products together.