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About This Book

This book describes concepts that you'll need to know when writing a Enterprise Objects Framework application. To help you find what you are looking for, this book is organized into three parts:

There are no prerequisites for learning Enterprise Objects Framework; however, it does help if you understand something about relational databases and Entity-Relationship modeling. If you aren't familiar with these topics, read the Appendix, "Entity-Relationship Modeling". While Enterprise Objects Framework largely encapsulates the programmer from having to know about relational databases, you still need to understand Entity-Relationship Modeling to map your enterprise objects into a relational database for storage.
Entity-Relationship Modeling terminology is used by the Enterprise Objects Framework classes and documentation to describe this mapping.


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