Using Caché Objects

	Contents
Chapter 1:	Introduction to Caché Objects
	1.1 Caché Objects Architecture 1.2 Class Definitions and the Class Dictionary 1.2.1 Creating Class Definitions 1.2.2 The Class Dictionary 1.3 The Caché Class Library 1.4 Development Tools 1.4.1 Caché Studio 1.4.2 Caché RoseLink 1.4.3 SQL-based Development 1.4.4 XML-based Development 1.5 Client Interoperability 1.5.1 Java 1.5.2 ActiveX / COM / .NET 1.5.3 Caché Server Pages 1.5.4 C++ 1.5.5 XML 1.5.6 The Caché SQL Gateway 1.5.7 The Caché Activate ActiveX Gateway
Chapter 2:	Object-Oriented Database Development
	2.1 Classes and Objects 2.2 Abstraction and Modelling 2.3 Inheritance and Polymorphism 2.4 Encapsulation 2.5 Extensibility 2.6 Object Persistence 2.7 Object Binding
Chapter 3:	The Caché Object Model
	3.1 Referring to an Object—OREF and OID 3.1.1 OID and ID Values 3.1.2 OREFs and Reference Counting 3.2 Types of Classes 3.2.1 Transient Object Classes 3.2.2 Persistent Object Classes 3.2.3 Serial Object Classes 3.2.4 Data Type Classes 3.3 Inheritance 3.3.1 Multiple Inheritance 3.4 Class Compilation
Chapter 4:	Caché Classes
	4.1 Naming Conventions 4.1.1 General Identifier Rules 4.1.2 Class Names 4.1.3 Class Member Names 4.2 Class Keywords 4.3 Class Parameters
Chapter 5:	Packages
	5.1 Overview of Packages 5.2 Package Names 5.3 Defining Packages 5.4 Using Packages 5.4.1 The IMPORT Directive 5.5 Packages and SQL 5.6 Built-in Packages
Chapter 6:	Methods
	6.1 Method Arguments 6.1.1 Specifying Default Values 6.1.2 Calling By Reference 6.2 Method Return Values 6.3 Method Visibility 6.4 Method Language 6.5 Method Keywords 6.6 Instance and Class Methods 6.7 Kinds of Methods 6.7.1 Code Methods 6.7.2 Expression Methods 6.7.3 Call Methods 6.7.4 Method Generators
Chapter 7:	Properties
	7.1 Property Keywords 7.2 Property Visibility 7.3 Property Behavior 7.4 Property Accessors 7.5 Attribute Properties 7.5.1 Data Type Properties 7.5.2 Object-Valued properties 7.5.3 Collection properties 7.5.4 Stream properties 7.5.5 Multidimensional Properties
Chapter 8:	Indices
	8.1 Index Keywords 8.2 Index Collation
Chapter 9:	Using Objects with Caché ObjectScript
	9.1 Executing Methods 9.1.1 About Return Values 9.1.2 Executing Instance Methods 9.1.3 Executing Class Methods 9.1.4 Executing Methods Using In-Memory Instances 9.1.5 Error Conditions 9.2 Creating New Objects 9.3 Opening Objects 9.4 Modifying Objects 9.4.1 Modifying Reference Properties 9.4.2 Modifying Embedded Object Properties 9.4.3 Modifying List Properties 9.4.4 Modfiying Array Properties 9.4.5 Modifying Stream Properties 9.5 Saving Objects 9.6 Deleting Objects 9.6.1 Deleting a Single Object 9.6.2 Deleting All Objects in an Extent 9.7 Executing Queries 9.7.1 Query Metadata Methods 9.7.2 Preparing Queries for Execution 9.7.3 Executing Queries 9.7.4 Processing Query Results 9.7.5 Closing Queries 9.7.6 Example of Using a Class Query
Chapter 10:	Data types
	10.1 Available Types 10.2 Operation 10.2.1 Using Data Types in Classes 10.2.2 Parameters 10.2.3 Keywords 10.2.4 Data Formats and Translation Methods 10.3 Enumerated Properties
Chapter 11:	Object Persistence
	11.1 The %Persistent Class 11.2 The Persistence Interface 11.2.1 Saving Objects 11.2.2 Opening Objects 11.2.3 Deleting Objects 11.2.4 Testing if Objects Exist 11.3 Object Extents 11.3.1 The Extent Query 11.4 Storage Definitions and Storage Classes 11.4.1 The %CacheStorage Storage Class 11.4.2 The %CacheSQLStorage Storage Class 11.5 Schema Evolution 11.5.1 Resetting the Storage Definition
Chapter 12:	Objects and SQL
	12.1 Inheritance and SQL 12.1.1 How a Class is Projected to SQL 12.1.2 Naming Rules for Projected Classes 12.2 The Object-SQL Projection 12.2.1 Identity (OIDs Projected to SQL) 12.2.2 Properties 12.2.3 Methods 12.2.4 SQL Triggers 12.2.5 Relationships
Chapter 13:	Relationships
	13.1 Relationship Basics 13.1.1 Relationship Keywords 13.1.2 Defining a Relationship 13.2 Dependent Relationships 13.3 In-Memory Behavior of Relationships 13.4 Persistent Behavior of Relationships 13.4.1 Referential Integrity 13.4.2 Persistent Behavior of Dependent Relationships
Chapter 14:	Streams
	14.1 The Stream Interface 14.2 Using Streams in Object Applications 14.3 The Stream Class Hierarchy 14.4 Using Streams with SQL 14.5 Streams and ODBC 14.6 Streams and Visual Basic
Chapter 15:	Class Projections
	15.1 Projection Definitions 15.1.1 Adding a Projection to a Class 15.2 Projection Classes 15.2.1 The Projection Interface 15.2.2 The Standard Projection Classes 15.2.3 Creating a New Projection Class
Chapter 16:	Method Generators
	16.1 Defining a Method Generator 16.2 How Method Generators Work 16.3 Method Generator Context 16.4 Implementing Method Generators 16.4.1 Method Generators for Other Languages 16.4.2 Specifying CodeMode within a Method Generator
Chapter 17:	The Caché Data Population Utility
	17.1 Data Population Basics 17.1.1 Changes to the Class Definition 17.1.2 Populating Objects 17.2 The POPSPEC Parameter 17.2.1 Populating Arrays 17.3 The OnPopulate Callback Method 17.4 Details
Chapter 18:	Class Definition Classes
	18.1 Browsing Class Definitions 18.2 Altering Class Definitions
Chapter 19:	Internet Classes
	19.1 E-Mail 19.1.1 Mail Messages 19.1.2 Sending E-Mail 19.1.3 Receiving E-Mail 19.2 FTP 19.3 HTTP 19.4 URL Parsing

Appendix A:	Object Concurrency Options