Dali Object-Relational Mapping Tool Advanced Tutorial

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Dali Object-Relational Mapping Tool
Advanced Tutorial
Release 0.5.0

August 2006
This tutorial provides information on building and deploying dynamic web application for an
order-entry system using Dali. The mapped classes are packaged into a web application,
demonstrating one way to deploy JPA applications. This tutorial focuses on using Dali to map your
classes to a relational database – the details of the web application are not discussed in this document.
This tutorial includes:
Requirements and installation
Dali Advanced Tutorial
For additional information, please visit the Dali home page at: http://www.eclipse.org/dali.
1 Requirements and installation
Before building this tutorial, ensure that your environment meets the following minimum requirements:
Eclipse 3.2 (http://www.eclipse.org/downloads)
Java Runtime Environment (JRE) 1.5 (http://java.com)
Eclipse Web Tools Platform (WTP) 1.5 (http://www.eclipse.org/webtools)
Java Persistence API (JPA) for Java EE 5. This tutorial uses the TopLink Essentials JPA
implementation that can be obtained from:
http://otn.oracle.com/jpa
Java Server Faces (JSF) 1.1 for Java EE5. The reference implementation can be obtained from:
https://javaserverfaces.dev.java.net/
Note: This tutorial requires JSF 1.1. Do not use JSF 1.2.
J2SE Application server. This tutorial uses Apache Tomcat 5.5 that can be obtained from:
http://tomcat.apache.org/
Relational database. This tutorial uses Apace Derby 10.1.3.1 that ...