Oracle® TopLink

Introductory Tutorial

10g (10.1.3.1.0)

September 2006

In this tutorial, you will build a simple employee management application that will track each employee's address and phone number. By completing this tutorial, you will learn how to:

Create a TopLink project
Add database tables to the project.
Map Java classes to database tables using direct-to-field, one-to-one, and one-to-many mappings.

This document includes the following sections:

Before You Begin
The Tutorial Project
Create an Eclipse Project
Create a New TopLink Project
Add the Java Classes
Map the Java Classes
Specify a Locking Policy
Create a Named Query
Export the Project Data
Build the sessions.xml File
Verify the Project
Testing the Application