Copyright ã 1993, 1994 Mike Henry.  All rights reserved.

Introduction

dbmAdaptor is an NEXTSTEP DBKit-compliant Adaptor and a "Flat-file" Database all in one. You create the database model with DBModeler, hook the model up to your application with InterfaceBuilder and you're all set.

As the name implies, dbmAdaptor uses standard UNIX DBM (actually NDBM) to implement the lower levels of the database. Note that dbmAdaptor already comes with DBM compiled into it; you don't need to know anything about DBM in order to use dbmAdaptor.

The documentation provided here only include information regard that which is particular to dbmAdaptor, and the things which make it different from other DBKit Adaptors. Make sure you study the NEXTSTEP DBKit Concept Manuals (most notably the Adaptors and Models chapters) before you start doing any serious work.