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JAVA OBJECTS AND RELATIONAL DATABASES
Be sure to have a JDK 1.2 or higher installed !
unpack the latest tar.gz snapshot to a directory <path> of your choice
in a terminal window (or dos box under Win32) change to directory <path>/ojb
run build[.sh] run_broker_example to see the sample programs test.ojb.broker.BrokerExamples and test.ojb.broker.ProxyExamples running. These samples show basic programming techniques using the OJB PersistenceBroker.
run build[.sh] run_odmg_example to see the sample programs test.ojb.odmg.OdmgExamples running. This samples shows programming techniques using the OJB ODMG implementation.
execute build[.sh] to build sample applications, generate javadoc api documentation and setup the demo database. To see which other build targets are available run build[.sh] targets.
For example you might type build[.sh] junit to run a suite of JUnit regression tests against the framework.
have a look at the code of the sample apps and play with the debug switches to see tracings of all internal components of the system
have a look at the metadata repository repository.xml to see how entity classes are mapped onto an underlying RDBMS
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