To use a cursor, you must open it using the Database.openCursor() method. When you open a cursor, you can optionally pass it a CursorConfig object to set cursor properties. Currently, the only available property tells the cursor to perform dirty reads. (For a description of dirty reads, see Configuring Dirty Reads).

For example:

import com.sleepycat.je.Environment;
import com.sleepycat.je.Database;
import com.sleepycat.je.DatabaseException;
import com.sleepycat.je.CursorConfig;
import com.sleepycat.je.Cursor;

...

try {
    myDbEnvironment = new Environment(new File("/export/dbEnv"), 
                                      envConfig);
    Database myDatabase = myDbEnvironment.openDatabase(null, myDbName, 
                                                       null);

    Cursor myCursor = myDatabase.openCursor(null, null);
} catch (DatabaseException dbe) {
    // Exception handling goes here
}

To close the cursor, call the Cursor.close() method. Note that if you close a database that has cursors open in it, then it will complain and close any open cursors for you. For best results, close your cursors from within a finally block.

import com.sleepycat.je.Database;
import com.sleepycat.je.Environment;
import com.sleepycat.je.Cursor;

...
try {
    ...
} catch ... {
} finally {
    if (myCursor != null) {
        myCursor.close();
    }

    if (myDatabase != null) {
        myDatabase.close();
    }

    if (myDbEnvironment != null) {
        myDbEnvironment.close();
    }
}