DataNucleus Access Platform : Dependencies

DataNucleus Access Platform utilises some third party software to provide some of its functionality. Dependent on how you intend to use this product you may have to also download some of these third party software packages. You can see below the dependencies and when they are required.

Software	Description	Version	Requirement
JDO API	JDO API definition, developed by Apache JDO.	2.0+	Required
JPA API	JPA API definition	1.0+	Required if you are using the JPA API or JPA annotations
Log4j	Log4J logging library.	1.2+	Required if you wish to log using Log4J. DataNucleus supports Log4J or JDK1.4 logging
ASM	ASM bytecode enhancement framework	3.0+	Required if you will be bytecode enhancing classes prior to persistence using ASM. You must use either ASM or BCEL
BCEL	Apache BCEL bytecode enhancement framework	5.1+	Required if you will be bytecode enhancing classes prior to persistence using BCEL. You must use either ASM or BCEL
DB4O	DB4O object database	5.5-6.2, 7.0+	Required if you are using a DB4O datastore
NeoDatis	NeoDatis object database	1.9.0-beta-2+	Required if you are using a NeoDatis datastore
Apache POI	Apache library for writing to Microsoft documents	3.0+	Required if you want to use Excel documents
Oracle Coherence	Oracle Coherence caching product		Required if you want to use Oracle Coherence for level 2 caching. This is commercial software
EHCache	EHCache caching product	1.0, 1.1	Required if you want to use EHCache for level 2 caching
OSCache	OSCache caching product	2.1	Required if you want to use OSCache for level 2 caching
SwarmCache	SwarmCache caching product	1.0RC2	Required if you want to use SwarmCache for level 2 caching
C3P0	C3P0 RDBMS connection pooling library	0.9.0+	Required if you are using an RDBMS datastore and want to use C3P0 for connection pooling
commons-dbcp	DBCP RDBMS connection pooling library	1.1+	Required if you are using an RDBMS datastore and want to use DBCP for connection pooling
commons-pool	DBCP RDBMS connection pooling library	1.1+	Required if you are using an RDBMS datastore and want to use DBCP for connection pooling
commons-collections	Apache commons collections library	3.0+	Required if you are using an RDBMS datastore and want to use DBCP for connection pooling
proxool	Proxool RDBMS connection pooling library	0.9.0RC3	Required if you are using an RDBMS datastore and want to use Proxool for connection pooling
commons-logging	Apache commons logging library	1.0+	Required if you are using an RDBMS datastore and want to use Proxool for connection pooling
mx4j	MX4J management library	3.0+	Required if you want to manage DataNucleus operations using MX4J
jaxb-api	2.1	JAXB API	Required is you are using an XML datastore
jaxb-impl	2.x	JAXB Implementation	Required is you are using an XML datastore
mx4j-tools	MX4J tools	1.2+	Required if you want to manage DataNucleus operations using MX4J
sdoapi	Oracle Spatial library	1.2+	Required if you want to persist Oracle spatial types
JDBC Driver	JDBC Driver for your chosen RDBMS		Required if you want to use an RDBMS datastore. Obtain from your RDBMS vendor