Package commonj.sdo

Provides an API for accessing and manipulating structured data.

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Interface Summary
ChangeSummary A change summary is used to record changes to the objects in a data graph, allowing applications to efficiently and incrementally update back-end storage when required.
ChangeSummary.Setting A setting encapsulates a property and a corresponding single value of the property's type.
DataGraph A data graph is used to package a graph of data objects along with their metadata, that is, data describing the data.
DataObject A data object is a representation of some structured data.
Property A representation of a property in the type of a data object.
Sequence A sequence is a heterogeneous list of properties and corresponding values.
Type A representation of the type of a property of a data object.
 

Package commonj.sdo Description

Provides an API for accessing and manipulating structured data.

Service Data Object API

The SDO comprises this API:

Diagram of the SDO API

Service Data Object Access

Data objects are accessed this way:

Diagram of the Data Object API


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