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| Foundation for creating environments, databases and transactions; provides |
| cursor based data access. |
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| <h2>Package Specification</h2> |
| This package constitutes the base public API for Berkeley DB, Java |
| Edition. The classes here are used to create database |
| objects, and insert and retrieve data. |
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| This package provides a key/data pair model of a database |
| record. Databases and database cursors are the key objects used to |
| access data. An alternative collections based API is available through |
| com.sleepycat.collections. |
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| The Environment class embodies the database environment and is the starting |
| point for the application. Databases and transaction objects are |
| created through the Environment class. |
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| Data can be inserted and retrieved directly through the Database |
| object, or through a Cursor obtained from the Database. A database record |
| consist of a key/data pair, where key and data are each individually |
| represented by a DatabaseEntry object. Classes in com.sleepycat.bind |
| provide optional support for mapping a Java object to a DatabaseEntry. |
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| Configuration classes are used to specify the attributes of particular |
| operations. For example the attributes of a database environment are |
| specified in the EnvironmentConfig class. An instance of that class is |
| required for Environment construction. Likewise, the attributes of a |
| database are described in DatabaseConfig, which is a parameter to the |
| Environment.openDatabase() method. |
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| @see <a href="{@docRoot}/../GettingStartedGuide/index.html" |
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