Getting Startedwith pureQuery

Table of Contents
Preface ............................................................................................................................. 17
Who should read this book? ........................................................................................ 17
How is this book structured? ........................................................................................ 17
A book for the community ............................................................................................ 18
Conventions ................................................................................................................. 19
What’s next? ................................................................................................................ 19
About the Authors ........................................................................................................... 21
Contributors .................................................................................................................... 23
Acknowledgements ........................................................................................................ 24
PART I – OVERVIEW AND SETUP ................................................................................. 25
Chapter 1 - Introduction to pureQuery.......................................................................... 27
1.1 The big picture: What is pureQuery? ..................................................................... 27
1.1.1 What’s in a name? .......................................................................................... 28
1.1.2 What do we mean by platform? ...................................................................... 29
1.2 pureQuery application programming interfaces ..................................................... 30
1.3 pureQuery runtime ................................................................................................. 31
1.4 pureQuery application development environment ................................................. 33
1.5 pureQuery monitoring services .............................................................................. 35
1.6 Career path ............................................................................................................ 38
1.7 The pureQuery community .................................................................................... 38
1.7.1 Popular community Web sites ........................................................................ 39
1.8 Competitive products ............................................................................................. 40
1.9 Exercises ............................................................................................................... 42
1.10 Review Questions ................................................................................................ 42
Chapter 2 - Installing pureQuery (Optim Development Studio) ................................. 45
2.1 Installation: The big picture .................................................................................... 45
2.2 Installation prerequisites ........................................................................................ 46
2.3 Installing Optim Development Studio ..................................................................... 47
2.3.1 Installing from the launchpad .......................................................................... 48
2.3.2 Applying Optim Development Studio Fixpack 1 ............................................. 54
2.4 Running Optim Development Studio ..................................................................... 55
2.4.1 Adding pureQuery support to projects ............................................................ 55
2.5 Summary ................................................................................................................ 58
2.6 Exercise ................................................................................................................. 58
2.7 Review Questions .................................................................................................. 59
PART II – TOOLING ......................................................................................................... 61
Chapter 3 - Code generation and customized Java Editor Integration ..................... 65
3.1 pureQuery Tooling: The big picture ....................................................................... 65
3.1.1 Generating pureQuery code ........................................................................... 66
3.2 Overview of the different types of wizards for code generation within the pureQuery
tooling........................................................................................................................... 70
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