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Appendix A
Cloudscape API

Cloudscape provides Javadoc HTML files of API classes and interfaces in the javadoc subdirectory. This appendix provides a brief overview of the API. Cloudscape does not provide the Javadoc for the java.sql packages, the main API for working with Cloudscape, because that is part of the JDK. For information about Cloudscape's implementation of JDBC, see Chapter 6, "JDBC Reference".

This document divides the API classes and interfaces into three categories:

  • Stand-Alone Tools and Utilities

    These are Java classes that stand on their own and are invoked in a command window.

  • Core Classes

    You do not invoke these on the command-line, only within a specified context within another application. These classes are boot classes or classes that implement javax.sql.DataSource and related APIs.

  • SQL-J Extensions

    These are interfaces that are implemented internally by Cloudscape. You use these interfaces only within SQL-J statements.