Oracle9iAS TopLink Mapping Workbench Reference Guide Release 2 (9.0.3) Part Number B10063-01 |
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This reference guide includes the concepts required for using the TopLink Mapping Workbench, a stand-alone application that creates and manages your descriptors and mappings for a project. This document includes information on each Mapping Workbench function and option.
This preface contains the following topics:
This document is intended for TopLink users who are familiar with the object-oriented programming and Java development environments.
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This document includes the following chapters:
This chapter introduces the Mapping Workbench - a tool to graphically configure descriptors and map your TopLink project.
This chapter contains instructions for creating and maintaining TopLink project files, including workbench preferences and team development.
This chapter describes how to create database sessions and import/export database tables to and from your TopLink project.
This chapter summarizes TopLink descriptors, including standard and advanced properties and mappings.
This chapter summarizes the direct mapping types supported by TopLink.
This chapter summarizes the relational mapping types supported by TopLink.
This chapter summarizes the object relational mapping types supported by TopLink.
This section summarizes TopLink's object model requirements.
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Provides installation procedures to install and configure TopLink. It also introduces the concepts with which you should be familiar to get the most out of TopLink.
Provides tutorials illustrating the use of TopLink. It is written for developers who are familiar with the object-oriented programming and Java development environments.
Introduces TopLink and the concepts and techniques required to build an effective TopLink application. It also gives a brief overview of relational databases and describes who TopLink accesses relational databases from the object-oriented Java domain.
Includes the concepts required for using the TopLink Mapping Workbench, a stand-alone application that creates and manages your descriptors and mappings for a project. This document includes information on each Mapping Workbench function and option and is written for developers who are familiar with the object-oriented programming and Java development environments.
Provides information on TopLink container-managed persistence (CMP) support for application servers. Oracle provides an individual document for each application server specifically supported by TopLink CMP.
Contains general information about TopLink's error handling strategy, the types of errors that can occur, and Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs). It also discusses troubleshooting procedures and provides a list of the exceptions that can occur, the most probable cause of the error condition, and the recommended action.
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