db4o tutorial


 

Welcome


db4o is the native Java, .NET and Mono open source object database.

This tutorial was written to get you started with db4o as quickly as possible. Before you start, please make sure that you have downloaded the latest db4o distribution from the db4objects website.

developer.db4o.com
You are invited to join the db4o community in the public db4o forums to ask for help at any time. Please also try out the keyword search functionality on the db4o knowledgebase.

Links
Here are some further links on developer.db4o.com that you may find useful:
All Downloads
Release Note Blog
SVN Access
Design Wiki
Community Projects


Download Contents


The db4o Mono distribution is available from the db4o download center in 3 versions: db4o-6.0-mono.tar.gz (binary and source tarball), db4o-6.0-mono.noarch.rpm (binary RPRM),  db4o-6.0-mono.src.rpm (source RPM). The noarch RPM can be built from the source RPM. After installing/unzipping you will find the following directory structure on your machine:

db4o-6.0-mono.noarch.rpm



Please take a look at all the supplied documentation formats to choose the one that works best for you:

/usr/share/doc/package/db4o/api/index.html
The API documentation for db4o is supplied as a set of HTML pages. While you read through this tutorial, it may be helpful to look into the API documentation occasionaly.

/usr/share/doc/package/db4o/reference/index.html
The reference documentation is a complete compilation for experienced db4o users. It is maintained online.

/usr/share/doc/packages/db4o/tutorial/index.html
The tutorial in HTML format. The Java and .NET db4o distributions also provide the HTML documentation with live execution capabilities.

/usr/share/doc/packages/db4o/tutorial/db4o-6.x-tutorial.pdf
The PDF version of the tutorial allows best fulltext search capabilities.





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