## db4o documentation and tutorial

# Welcome

db4o is the native Java, .NET and Mono open source object database.
This documentation and tutorial is intended to get you started with db4o and to be a reliable companion while you develop with db4o. Before you start, please make sure that you have downloaded the latest db4o distribution from the db4objects website.
You are invited to join the db4o community in the public db4o forums to ask for help at any time. You may also find the db4o knowledgebase helpful for keyword searches.
Java, .NET and Mono
db4o is available for Java, for .NET and for Mono. This tutorial was written for Mono . The structure of the other distributions may be considerably different, so please use the tutorial for the version that you plan to experiment with first.

# Download Contents

The db4o Mono distribution is available from the db4o download center in 3 versions: db4o-5.0-mono.tar.gz (binary and source tarball), db4o-5.0-mono.noarch.rpm (binary RPRM), db4o-5.0-mono.src.rpm (source RPM). The noarch RPM can be built from the source RPM. After installing/unzipping you will find the following directory structure on your machine:
db4o-5.0-mono.noarch.rpm
db4o-5.0-mono.tar.gz
/usr/share/doc/packages/db4o/tutorial/index.html
The tutorial in HTML format. The Java and .NET db4o distributions also provide the HTML documentation with live execution capabilities.
/usr/share/doc/packages/db4o/tutorial/db4o-5.x-tutorial.pdf
The PDF version of the tutorial allows best fulltext search capabilities.
/usr/share/doc/package/db4o/api/index.html
The API documentation for db4o is supplied as a set of HTML pages. While you read through this tutorial, it may be helpful to look into the API documentation occasionaly.
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