The base interface for all ODMG collections.
The ODMG collections are based on JavaSoft’s collection interfaces.
All of the operations defined by the JavaSoft Collection
interface are supported by an ODMG implementation of DCollection ;
the exception UnsupportedOperationException is not thrown when a
call is made to any of the Collection methods.
DCollection contains methods used to perform queries on the collection.
The OQL query predicate is given as a string with the syntax of the
where clause of OQL. The predefined OQL variable this
is used inside the predicate to denote the current element of the collection.
author: David Jordan (as Java Editor of the Object Data Management Group) version: ODMG 3.0 |