44 TopLink Components

TopLink contains separate development and runtime tools, in addition to specific class libraries. Development Tools: The Mapping Workbench creates and manages the mapping metadata that describes the relationship between Java classes and relational tables. The Session Editor creates the sessions.xml file that describes how TopLink communicates with the datasource at runtime. Runtime Tools: The Web Client provides a Web-based interface to interact with any TopLink ServerSession deployed on a particular server, such as OC4J. The Session Console tests descriptors, database connectivity, and database performance. Class Libraries: The Foundation Library contains the TopLink API that is called by an application to retrieve and store Java objects. It also includes application server-specific CMP (container managed persistence) information and can be used during both development and runtime.

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