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db4o is what it is thanks to the contribution of many individuals. We would like to recognize the effort of a group of people whose work has been particularly valuable to the project. We are very proud to announce the distinguished list of db4o most Valued...
 

db4o Projects Spotlight

db4o-groovy: Groovy integration support for db4o

This project provides utilities for groovy to access db4o databases. Features provided in V0.1: Db4oBuilder: a groovy based DSL for accessing a db4o database and Db4oGroovyShell and Db4oQueryGroovyShell: db4o aware extensions of the groovy shell. Url: http://code.google.com/p/db4o-groovy/ (thanks a lot Gerd!! =)

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We have fixed some thread synchronization issues in the C/S protocol and put new versions (rev. x.y.54.11278) for all branches …
 
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Do you like profiling? Do you like tuning code? If you do, how about taking part in the db4o performance contest? We offer USD …
 
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One of the key advantages of db4o is that it simply stores any object with just one line of code: objectContainer.store(myObject); …
 

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"db4o began life as a Java database library, but its designers have since created parallel editions for the .Net languages. In 2005, db4o implemented Native Queries, which allow you to express queries as Java (or .Net) methods. Recent additions to the...
We have fixed some thread synchronization issues in the C/S protocol and put new versions (rev. x.y.54.11278) for all branches online in the download center . Users with concurrent networking C/S in connection with lazy queries are recommended to upgrade....
db4o is what it is thanks to the contribution of many individuals. We would like to recognize the effort of a group of people whose work has been particularly valuable to the project. We are very proud to announce the distinguished list of db4o most Valued...

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