db4o documentation and tutorial |
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Welcomedb4o is the native Java, .NET and Mono open source object database. This documentation and tutorial is intended to get you started with db4o and to be a reliable companion while you develop with db4o. Before you start, please make sure that you have downloaded the latest db4o distribution from the db4objects website. You are invited to join the db4o community in the public db4o forums to ask for help at any time. You may also find the db4o knowledgebase helpful for keyword searches. Java, .NET and Mono db4o is available for Java, for .NET and for Mono. This tutorial was written for Java . The structure of the other distributions may be considerably different, so please use the tutorial for the version that you plan to experiment with first. Download ContentsThe db4o Java distribution comes as one zip file, db4o-5.0-java.zip. When you unzip this file, you get the following directory structure: ![]() db4o-5.0/doc/tutorial/index.html This is the interactive HTML tutorial. Examples can be run "live" against a db4o database from within the browser. In order to use the interactive functionality a Java JRE 1.3 or above needs to be installed and integrated into the browser. Java security settings have to allow applets to be run. db4o-5.0/doc/tutorial/db4o-5.0-tutorial.pdf The PDF version of the tutorial allows best fulltext search capabilities. db4o-5.0/doc/api/index.html The API documentation for db4o is supplied as JavaDocs HTML files. While you read through this tutorial it may be helpful to look into the API documentation occasionaly. -- generated by Doctor courtesy of db4objects Inc. |