Introduction

This manual is designed to be a guide for creating and maintaining Emeraldjb projects. Although, this guide attempts to provide all information necessary for new Java developers to use Emeraldjb, previous Java knowledge is helpful. If you are brand new to Java, please visit Sun's Java Tutorial for core Java concepts.

Emeraldjb is the next generation of the Lowroad Java and Standard Query Language (SQL) generator, originally created by Jonathon Gibbons. Emeraldjb creates the linkage between Java applications and Relational Database Management Systems (RDBMS). It creates and maintains Java classes that map directly to database tables. This allows data to be persisted from the application to the database and alleviates the need for developers to write common Java Database Connectivity (JDBC) calls and SQL.

Using Emeraldjb can save many days or weeks of laborious typing and will result in very robust data access code with none of the typos or mistakes that manual coding can produce.