convenience methods

If XPP were to add some convenience methods to handle some of these common cases it'd probably come out much better in the comparison.

The convenience methods introduced at the beginning of the article will let you write and read records into the record store.

Convenience methods are the methods used to open, close, and delete record stores.

This class contains a constructor and a number of convenience methods that help retrieve information from the DOM tree.

The Logger class provides a large set of convenience methods for generating log messages.

The key thing to remember is that you can build convenience methods on top of the db4o infrastructure to make it easier to use.

Finally, several convenience methods can perform the downcast.

First, you code your JavaBeans as you usually would, including any behavior and whatever convenience methods you like.

Super interface also has two convenience methods.

Your database class has a couple of convenience methods.

Come back for Part 2, where you'll enhance the library you've just created with error checking and convenience methods.

Listing 2 shows the two convenience methods to reset the information normally obtained from the Login and Customer Information screens