2 Tutorial

• Preliminaries: Some general remarks.
• Getting Started: Accessing a store.
• Running the Tests: Gaining confidence.
• The Root: Staying alive.
• Serialization: Lisp -> (char *).
• Persistent Classes: CLOS the Elephant way.
• Rules about Persistent Classes: What you need to know.
• Using Transactions: Using ACID.
• Using BTrees: Storing lots of things.
• Using Cursors: Tranversing BTrees.
• Secondary Indices: By any other name...
• Class Indices: Speed and Convenience.
• The Store Controller: Behind the curtain.
• Repository Migration: How to move objects from one repository to another
• Threading: Playing nice with others.
• Performance Tips: Bogoflops for your buck.