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== Getting Startedanchor:Getting_Started[]

Using JDO requires several components that work together:

* a database that stores your data persistently
* an application that operates through the JDO layers on the database
* a JDO implementation that provides the implementation of the JDO APIs
* Java classes (object model) that provide the application view of the data

A good place to start is to define your object model. This is the collection
of Java classes that you use to represent the persistent data in your
database. Some JDO implementations allow you to create your database schema
from your object model. Or you might already have a database and database
schema that you can use to derive the object model.

You will also need to define Java classes that implement the application
that operates on the object model. The application is responsible for
using the JDO implementation classes to define the application view of
PersistenceManagerFactory and PersistenceManager.

Next, choose a JDO implementation. You can get information
on JDO implementations here. Some factors to consider when choosing
a JDO implementation is what databases they support, what Java version
they support, and whether they provide tools to create database schema from
an object model or create an object model from the database schema.

Some JDO implementations also package the JDO interfaces as a separate
jar file, so there may be no need to download the JDO interfaces from this
site.

More information on how to proceed can be found on your JDO implementation site.