ODF Documents

DataNucleus supports persisting/retrieving objects to/from Open Document Format (ODF) documents (using the datanucleus-odf plugin). Such documents can then be used in applications like OpenOffice and KOffice. It makes use of the ODF Toolkit project. If you wish to help out in this effort either by contributing or by sponsoring particular functionality please contact us via the DataNucleus Forum.

Datastore Connection

DataNucleus supports file-based persistence currently.

The following persistence properties will connect to a local file on your local machine 

datanucleus.ConnectionURL=odf:file:myfile.ods

replacing "myfile.ods" with your filename, which can be absolute or relative

So you create your PersistenceManagerFactory or EntityManagerFactory with these properties. Thereafter you have the full power of the JDO or JPA APIs at your disposal, for your ODF datastore.



Queries

Access Platform allows you to query the objects in the datastore using the following

  • JDOQL - language based around the objects that are persisted and using Java-type syntax
  • JPQL - language based around the objects that are persisted and using SQL-like syntax