Cayenne Guide

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Table of Contents

I. Object Relational Mapping with Cayenne
1. Setup
System Requirements
Running CayenneModeler
2. Cayenne Mapping Structure
Cayenne Project
DataMap
DataNode
DbEntity
ObjEntity
Embeddable
Procedure
Query
3. CayenneModeler Application
Working with Mapping Projects
Reverse Engineering Database
Generating Database Schema
Migrations
Generating Java Classes
Modeling Inheritance
Modeling Generic Persistent Classes
Mapping ObjAttributes to Custom Classes
Modeling Primary Key Generation Strategy
II. Cayenne Framework
4. Including Cayenne in a Project
Jar Files and Dependencies
Maven Projects
Ant Projects
5. Starting Cayenne
Starting and Stopping ServerRuntime
Merging Multiple Projects
Web Applications
6. Persistent Objects and ObjectContext
ObjectContext
Persistent Object and its Lifecycle
ObjectContext Persistence API
Cayenne Helper Class
ObjectContext Nesting
Generic Persistent Objects
Transactions
7. Expressions
Expressions Overview
Path Expressions
Creating Expressions from Strings
Creating Expressions with API
Evaluating Expressions in Memory
8. Orderings
9. Queries
SelectQuery
EJBQLQuery
SQLTemplate
ProcedureQuery
NamedQuery
Custom Queries
10. Lifecycle Events
Types of Lifecycle Events
Callbacks on Persistent Objects
Callbacks on Non-Persistent Listeners
Combining Listeners with DataChannelFilters
11. Performance Tuning
Prefetching
Data Rows
Iterated Queries
Paginated Queries
Caching and Fresh Data
Turning off Synchronization of ObjectContexts
12. Customizing Cayenne Runtime
Dependency Injection Container
Customization Strategies
Noteworthy Built-in Services
III. Cayenne Framework - Remote Object Persistence
13. Introduction to ROP
What is ROP
Main Features
14. ROP Setup
System Requirements
Jar Files and Dependencies
15. Implementing ROP Server
16. Implementing ROP Client
17. ROP Deployment
Deploying ROP Server
Deploying ROP Client
Security
18. Current Limitations
A. Configuration Properties
B. Service Collections
C. Expressions BNF

List of Tables

1.1. Cayenne Version History
4.1. cgen required parameters
4.2. cgen optional parameters
4.3. cdbgen required parameters
4.4. cdbgen optional parameters
4.5. cdbimport required parameters
4.6. cdbimport optional parameters
6.1. Persistence States
10.1. Lifecycle Event Types
A.1. Configuration Properties Recognized by ServerRuntime and/or ClientRuntime
B.1. Service Collection Keys Present in ServerRuntime and/or ClientRuntime