Before You Begin |
Welcome to the Using Java DataBase Connectivity book of the Sun ONE Studio 5 Programming Series. This book focuses on programming with persistent data--data stored in a database or other data store that is external to your applications. The book discusses the different persistence programming models supported by Sun ONE Studio 5. It focuses on the Transparent Persistence technology provided by the Sun ONE Studio 5 integrated development environment (IDE).
This book is written for programmers who want to learn how to use the persistence programming models supported by Sun ONE Studio 5. The book assumes a general knowledge of Java and database access technology. Before reading it, you should be familiar with the following subjects:
You can create the examples in this book in the environments listed in the release notes on the following web site:
http://forte.sun.com/ffj/documentation/index.html
Screen shots vary slightly from one platform to another. You should have no trouble translating the slight differences to your platform. Although almost all procedures use the Sun ONE Studio 5 user interface, occasionally you might be instructed to enter a command at the command line. Here too, there are slight differences from one platform to another. For example, a Microsoft Windows command might look like this:
c:\>cd MyWorkDir\MyPackage |
A UNIX command might look like this:
% cd MyWorkDir/MyPackage |
This book is written for programmers who want to learn how to use the persistence programming models supported by Sun ONE Studio 5. The book assumes a general knowledge of Java and database access technology. Before reading it, you should be familiar with the following subjects:
This book describes JDBC productivity enhancement tools provided by Sun ONE Studio 5. These automate many JDBC programming tasks in building client components or applications that interact with a database.
The names of commands, files, and directories; on-screen computer output |
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What you type, when contrasted with on-screen computer output |
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Read Chapter 6 in the User's Guide. |
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Sun ONE Studio 5 documentation includes books delivered in Acrobat Reader (PDF) format, release notes, online help, readme files for example applications, and Javadoc documentation.
The documents described in this section are available from the docs.sun.comSM web site and from the documentation page of the Sun ONE Studio Developer Resources portal (http://forte.sun.com/ffj/documentation).
The docs.sun.com web site (http://docs.sun.com) enables you to read, print, and buy Sun Microsystems manuals through the Internet. If you cannot find a manual, see the documentation index installed with the product on your local system or network.
You can also find the completed tutorial applications at: http://forte.sun.com/ffj/documentation/tutorialsandexamples.html
Online help is available in the Sun ONE Studio 5 IDE. You can open help by pressing the help key (F1 in Microsoft Windows and Linux environments, Help key in the Solaris environment), or by choosing Help Contents. Either action displays a list of help topics and a search facility.
You can download examples that illustrate a particular Sun ONE Studio 5 feature, as well as completed tutorial applications, from the Sun ONE Studio Developer Resources portal at:
http://forte.sun.com/ffj/documentation/tutorialsandexamples.html
The site includes the applications that are used in this document.
Javadoc documentation is available within the IDE for many Sun ONE Studio 5 modules. Refer to the release notes for instructions on installing this documentation. When you start the IDE, you can access this Javadoc documentation within the Javadoc pane of the Explorer.
Sun is interested in improving its documentation and welcomes your comments and suggestions. Email your comments to Sun at this address:
Please include the part number (817-2332-10) of your document in the subject line of your email.
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