Preface

Table of Contents

Conventions Used in this Book

Welcome to the Berkeley DB Java Edition (JE) Collections API. This document provides a tutorial that introduces the collections API. The goal of this document is to provide you with an efficient mechanism with which you can quickly become efficient with this API. As such, this document is intended for Java developers and senior software architects who are looking for transactionally-protected backing of their Java collections. No prior experience with Sleepycat technologies is expected or required.

Conventions Used in this Book

The following typographical conventions are used within in this manual:

Class names are represented in monospaced font, as are method names. For example: "The Environment.openDatabase() method returns a Database class object."

Variable or non-literal text is presented in italics. For example: "Go to your JE_HOME directory."

Program examples are displayed in a monospaced font on a shaded background. For example:

import com.sleepycat.je.Environment;
import com.sleepycat.je.EnvironmentConfig;
import java.io.File;
                                                                                                                                                                       
...
                                                                                                                                                                       
// Open the environment. Allow it to be created if it does not already exist.
Environment myDbEnvironment;

In situations in this book, programming examples are updated from one chapter to the next in this book. When this occurs, the new code is presented in monospaced bold font. For example:

import com.sleepycat.je.Environment;
import com.sleepycat.je.EnvironmentConfig;
import java.io.File;
                                                                                                                                                                       
...
                                                                                                                                                                       
// Open the environment. Allow it to be created if it does not already exist.
Environment myDbEnv;
EnvironmentConfig envConfig = new EnvironmentConfig();
envConfig.setAllowCreate(true);
myDbEnv = new Environment(new File("/export/dbEnv"), envConfig);