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It is intended to describe how to 61 transaction protect your application's data. The APIs used to perform this task 62 are described here, as are the environment infrastructure and administrative tasks 63 required by a transactional application. This book also 64 describes multi-threaded <span>and 65 multi-process</span> DB applications and the requirements they 66 have for deadlock detection. 67 </p> 68 <p> 69 This book is aimed at the software engineer responsible for writing a 70 transactional DB application. 71 </p> 72 <p> 73 This book assumes that you have already read and understood the 74 concepts contained in the 75 <span><i class="citetitle">Getting Started with Berkeley DB</i> 76 guide.</span> 77 78 79 </p> 80 <div class="sect1" lang="en" xml:lang="en"> 81 <div class="titlepage"> 82 <div> 83 <div> 84 <h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a id="conventions"></a>Conventions Used in this Book</h2> 85 </div> 86 </div> 87 <div></div> 88 </div> 89 <p> 90 The following typographical conventions are used within in this manual: 91 </p> 92 <p> 93 Class names are represented in <tt class="classname">monospaced font</tt>, as are <tt class="methodname">method 94 names</tt>. For example: 95 96 97 98 <span>"The <tt class="methodname">Environment()</tt> 99 constructor returns an <tt class="classname">Environment</tt> class object."</span> 100 101 102 </p> 103 <p> 104 Variable or non-literal text is presented in <span class="emphasis"><em>italics</em></span>. For example: "Go to your 105 <span class="emphasis"><em>DB_INSTALL</em></span> directory." 106 </p> 107 <p> 108 Program examples are displayed in a <tt class="classname">monospaced font</tt> on a shaded background. 109 For example: 110 </p> 111 <pre class="programlisting">import com.sleepycat.db.DatabaseConfig; 112 113... 114 115// Allow the database to be created. 116DatabaseConfig myDbConfig = new DatabaseConfig(); 117myDbConfig.setAllowCreate(true);</pre> 118 <p> 119 In some situations, programming examples are updated from one chapter to the next. When 120 this occurs, the new code is presented in <b class="userinput"><tt>monospaced bold</tt></b> font. For example: 121 </p> 122 <pre class="programlisting"><b class="userinput"><tt>import com.sleepycat.db.Database;</tt></b> 123import com.sleepycat.db.DatabaseConfig; 124 125... 126 127// Allow the database to be created. 128DatabaseConfig myDbConfig = new DatabaseConfig(); 129myDbConfig.setAllowCreate(true); 130<b class="userinput"><tt>Database myDb = new Database("mydb.db", null, myDbConfig);</tt></b> </pre> 131 <div class="note" style="margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0.5in;"> 132 <h3 class="title">Note</h3> 133 <p> 134 Finally, notes of special interest are represented using a note block such 135 as this. 136 </p> 137 </div> 138 <div class="sect2" lang="en" xml:lang="en"> 139 <div class="titlepage"> 140 <div> 141 <div> 142 <h3 class="title"><a id="moreinfo"></a>For More Information</h3> 143 </div> 144 </div> 145 <div></div> 146 </div> 147 <p> 148 Beyond this manual, you may also find the following sources of information useful when building a 149 transactional DB application: 150 </p> 151 <div class="itemizedlist"> 152 <ul type="disc"> 153 <li> 154 <p> 155 156 157 <a href="http://www.oracle.com/technology/documentation/berkeley-db/db/gsg/JAVA/index.html" target="_top"> 158 Getting Started with Berkeley DB for Java 159 </a> 160 161 162 163 164 165 </p> 166 </li> 167 <li> 168 <p> 169 170 171 <a href="http://www.oracle.com/technology/documentation/berkeley-db/db/gsg_db_rep/JAVA/index.html" target="_top"> 172 Berkeley DB Getting Started with Replicated Applications for Java 173 </a> 174 </p> 175 </li> 176 <li> 177 <p> 178 <a href="http://www.oracle.com/technology/documentation/berkeley-db/db/ref/toc.html" target="_top"> 179 Berkeley DB Programmer's Reference Guide 180 </a> 181 </p> 182 </li> 183 <li> 184 <p> 185 186 187 <a href="http://www.oracle.com/technology/documentation/berkeley-db/db/java/index.html" target="_top"> 188 Berkeley DB Javadoc 189 </a> 190 191 192 </p> 193 </li> 194 <li> 195 <p> 196 197 <a href="http://www.oracle.com/technology/documentation/berkeley-db/db/collections/tutorial/index.html" target="_top"> 198 Berkeley DB Collections Tutorial 199 </a> 200 </p> 201 </li> 202 </ul> 203 </div> 204 </div> 205 </div> 206 </div> 207 <div class="navfooter"> 208 <hr /> 209 <table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"> 210 <tr> 211 <td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="index.html">Prev</a>��</td> 212 <td width="20%" align="center"> 213 <a accesskey="u" href="index.html">Up</a> 214 </td> 215 <td width="40%" align="right">��<a accesskey="n" href="introduction.html">Next</a></td> 216 </tr> 217 <tr> 218 <td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">Getting Started with Berkeley DB Transaction Processing��</td> 219 <td width="20%" align="center"> 220 <a accesskey="h" href="index.html">Home</a> 221 </td> 222 <td width="40%" align="right" valign="top">��Chapter��1.��Introduction</td> 223 </tr> 224 </table> 225 </div> 226 </body> 227</html> 228