The kodo.runtime.KodoHelper is a static helper class, much like JDOHelper. KodoHelper provides many convenience methods for obtaining persistence manager factories, as well as methods to provide Kodo-specific information about persistent instances, such as their JDO metadata objects or state managers. Finally, the static KodoHelper.close method can be used to close any Kodo resource, such as an extent iterator, query result, or large result set field iterator, without needing a reference to the owning extent, query, or object. See KodoHelper's Javadoc for details.