Part VII

Descriptors

This part describes the TopLink artifact used to describe persistent objects. It contains the following chapter:

• Chapter 16, "Introduction to Descriptors"

  This chapter describes each of the different TopLink descriptor types and important descriptor concepts.

For information on specific descriptor types, see the following parts:

• Part X, "Relational Descriptors"

• Part XI, "Object-Relational Data Type Descriptors"

• Part XV, "XML Descriptors"

• Part XVIII, "EIS Descriptors"