Index

A

access to metadata objects
- restricting 1
addObjectClassification method 1
aggregate levels of a hierarchy 1
AggregationCommand objects
- example of creating 1
alias method
- description 1
- example of 1
ALL metadata reader mode 1
Analytic Workspace Manager 1
analytic workspaces
- building 1
- building, example of 1
- creating 1
- sample 1
ancestors attribute
- example of getting 1
- method for getting 1
appendValues method 1
- example of 1
applications
- requirements for developing 1
- typical tasks performed by 1
ascending
- comparison rules in a join operation 1
asymmetric result set, Cursor positions in an 1
at method
- example of 1
AttributeMap objects
- creating 1
attributes
- as dimensional data objects 1
- creating 1
- creating an index for 1
- grouping 1
- mapping 1
- mapping, example of 1
- multilingual 1
- prefixes for in materialized views 1
- represented by MdmAttribute objects 1
- specifying language for 1
- specifying target dimension for 1
- unique key 1
AWCubeOrganization class 1
AWCubeOrganization objects
- example of creating 1
AW objects
- creating 1
- naming 1
AWPrimaryDimensionOrganization objects
- creating 1

B

BaseExample11g.java example program 1
BaseMetadataObject class 1
base Source
- definition 1, 2
- of a join operation 1
basic Source methods 1
bind variables
- in XML templates 1
Buildable interface 1
building analytic workspaces 1
- example of 1
BuildItem objects
- creating 1
BuildProcess objects
- creating 1

C

Cartesian product
- result of joining unrelated Source objects 1
classifying metadata objects 1
class libraries
- obtaining 1
ColumnExpression objects
- creating 1
committing transactions 1
COMPARISON_RULE_ASCENDING
- example of 1, 2
COMPARISON_RULE_ASCENDING_NULLS_FIRST
- example of 1
COMPARISON_RULE_DESCENDING
- example of 1
COMPARISON_RULE_DESCENDING_NULLS_FIRST
- example of 1
COMPARISON_RULE_REMOVE
- description 1
- example of 1, 2, 3
COMPARISON_RULE_SELECT
- description 1
- example of 1, 2, 3
comparison parameter
- of the join method 1
comparisonRule parameter
- of a join method 1
CompoundCursor objects
- getting children of, example 1
- navigating for a crosstab view, example 1
- navigating for a table view, example 1
- positions of 1
connections
- closing 1
- creating 1
- prerequisites for 1
consistent cube 1
ConsistentSolveCommand objects
- contained by a ConsistentSolveSpecification 1
- example of creating 1
ConsistentSolveSpecification objects
- associated with an MdmCube 1
container
- of a BaseMetadataObject 1
Context11g.java example program 1
count method
- example of 1
CreateAndBuildAW.java example program 1
createCursorManager method 1, 2
- example of 1, 2, 3
createCursor method 1
- example of 1, 2, 3, 4
createListSource method
- example of 1, 2, 3
createParameterizedSource method
- example of 1
createRangeSource method
- example of 1
createRootTransaction method 1
createSource method 1
- example of 1, 2, 3
createSQLCursorManager method 1
CreateValueHierarchy.java example program 1
crosstab view
- example of 1
- navigating Cursor for, example 1
CubeDimensionalityMap objects
- contained by a CubeMap 1
- creating 1
CubeMap objects
- creating 1
- specifying a Query for 1
CubeOrganization objects
- contained by an MdmCube 1
cubes
- as dimensional data objects 1
- consistent 1
- creating 1
- example of 1
- metadata object representing 1
current position in a Cursor, definition 1
current Transaction 1, 2
CursorInfoSpecification interface 1
CursorManager class 1
CursorManager objects
- closing before rolling back a Transaction 1
- creating 1
- creating, example of 1, 2
- updating the CursorManagerSpecification 1
Cursor objects
- created in the current Transaction 1
- creating 1
- creating, example of 1, 2
- current position, definition 1
- CursorManager objects for creating 1
- extent, definition 1
- extent calculation, example 1
- faster and slower varying components 1
- fetch size, definition 1
- getting children of, example 1
- getting the values of, examples 1
- parent starting and ending position 1
- position 1
- retrieving data with 1
- Source objects for which you cannot create 1
- span, definition 1
- specifying fetch size for a table view, example 1
- specifying the behavior of 1, 2
- starting and ending positions of a value, example of calculating 1
- structure 1
cursor package
- description 1
CursorPrintWriter.java example program 1
CursorSpecification class 1
CursorSpecification objects
- getting from a CursorManagerSpecification, example 1

D

data
- retrieving 1, 2
- specifying 1, 2
database schemas
- represented by MdmDatabaseSchema objects 1
data objects
- first-class 1
DataProvider objects
- creating 1
- needed to create MdmMetadataProvider 1
data store
- definition 1
- exploring 1
- gaining access to data in 1, 2, 3
- scope of 1
data types 1
- See also: SQL data types
- converting 1
- of Source objects 1
data warehouse 1
deployment package
- description 1
derived Source objects
- definition 1
descending
- comparison rules in a join operation 1
descriptions
- metadata objects for 1
- types provided by API 1
dimensional data model
- associations between classes 1
- description 1
- designing an OLAP 1
- implementing 1
- objects corresponding to MDM objects 1
- star schema as a 1
dimensioned Source
- definition 1
dimension levels
- mapping 1
- metadata object for 1
dimensions
- as dimensional data objects 1
- creating 1
- dimensioning measures 1
- MdmDimension classes 1
- MdmDimension objects 1
- member value formatting 1
- metadata objects representing 1
distinct method
- description 1
- example of 1
div method
- example of 1
drilling in a hierarchy
- example of 1
DynamicDefinition class 1
dynamic queries 1
dynamic Source objects
- definition 1
- example of getting 1
- produced by a Template 1

E

edges of a cube
- creating 1
- definition 1
- pivoting, example of 1
elements
- of a Source 1
empty Source objects
- definition 1
EnableMVs.java example program 1
end date
- attribute 1
- of a time dimension 1
ET views 1
- See also: OLAP views
- embedded total views for OLAP metadata objects 1
example programs
- compressed file containing 1
- sample schema for 1
executeBuild method
- example of 1
exportFullXML methods
- description 1
- example of 1
exportIncrementalXML methods
- description 1
exporting XML templates 1, 2
Expression objects
- creating 1
- example of 1
extent of a Cursor
- definition 1
- example of calculating 1
- use of 1
extraction input
- definition 1
extract method 1
- description 1
- example of 1, 2, 3

F

faster varying Cursor components 1
fetch size of a Cursor
- definition 1
- example of specifying 1
- reasons for specifying 1
findOrCreateAttributeMap method 1, 2
- example of 1
findOrCreateAWCubeOrganization method
- example of 1
findOrCreateAW method 1
- example of 1
findOrCreateAWPrimaryDimensionOrganization method
- example of 1
findOrCreateBaseAttribute method
- description 1
- example of 1
findOrCreateBaseMeasure method 1
- example of 1, 2
findOrCreateCubeDimensionalityMap method
- example of 1
findOrCreateCube method
- example of 1, 2
findOrCreateDerivedMeasure method 1
findOrCreateDescription method 1
findOrCreateDimensionLevel method 1
- example of 1
findOrCreateHierarchyLevel method
- example of 1
findOrCreateLevelHierarchy method
- example of 1
findOrCreateMeasureMap method
- example of 1
findOrCreateMemberListMap method
- example of 1
findOrCreateStandardDimension method 1
- example of 1
first-class data objects 1
fromSyntax method
- example of 1
FundamentalMetadataObject class
- representing data types 1
FundamentalMetadataProvider objects
- example of 1
fundamental Source objects
- definition 1
- for data types 1

G

generated SQL, getting 1
getAncestorsAttribute method 1
getAttributeGroupName method 1
getContainedByObject method 1
getDataType method
- of a Source 1
- of a Source, example of 1, 2, 3
getEmptySource method 1
- example of 1
getETAttributeColumn method 1
getID method
- example of 1
- of a BaseMetadataObject 1
- of a Source 1
getInputs method 1
getLevelAttribute method
- example of 1
getMdmMetadataProvider method
- example of 1
getMetadataObject method 1
getMetadataObjects method 1
getNewName method 1
getOutputs method 1
getOwner method 1
getParentAttribute method 1
getRootSchema method 1
getSource method
- example of 1, 2, 3
- for getting Source produced by a Template, example 1
- in DynamicDefinition class 1
getTopLevelObject method 1
- example of 1
getType method 1
getValidNamespaces method 1
getVoidSource method 1
GLOBAL_AWJ sample analytic workspace 1
Global schema for example programs 1
grouping attributes 1
gt method
- of a Source, example of 1

H

hierarchical sorting
- example of 1
hierarchies
- as dimensional data objects 1
- creating 1
- lineage in materialized views 1
- lineage in OLAP views 1
- ragged 1
- skip-level 1

I

ID 1
- See also: unique identifiers
- getting metadata objects by 1
- of a metadata object 1
- of a Source 1
importing XML templates 1, 2
importXML methods
- description 1
indexes
- for attributes 1
inputs
- of a derived Source 1
- of a primary Source 1
- of a Source
  - definition 1
  - deriving with the value method 1, 2
  - matching with a Source 1
  - obtaining 1
  - types of 1
interval method
- example of 1
isSubType method
- example of 1

J

Java archive (JAR) files, required 1
Java Development Kit, version required 1
JDBC
- creating connections 1
- libraries required 1
joined parameter
- of a join method 1
joinHidden method
- example of 1, 2, 3
join method
- description 1, 2
- examples of 1
- full signature 1
- rules governing matching an input with a Source 1

L

lag method
- example of 1
languages
- specifying for an attribute 1
leaves of a hierarchy
- defined 1
legacy metadata objects
- namespaces for 1
- supporting 1
level-based hierarchy 1
levels
- as dimensional data objects 1
- creating 1
- MdmDimensionLevel objects 1
lineage
- populating attribute hierarchy values 1
list Source objects
- definition 1
- example of creating 1
local dimension member values 1

M

mapping
- dimension levels 1
- hierarchy levels 1
- measures 1
- objects contained by an MdmCube 1
mapping package
- description 1
matching an input with a Source
- example of 1, 2
- rules governing 1
materialized views
- for a cube 1
- for OLAP metadata 1
- including hierarchy lineage 1
- populating attribute hierarchy lineage for 1
- prefixes for attribute columns in 1
MdmAttribute objects
- creating 1
- description 1
- example of the values of 1
- inputs of 1
MdmBaseAttribute class
- description 1
MdmBaseAttribute objects
- creating 1, 2
- mapping 1, 2
- mapping, example of 1
MdmBaseMeasure objects
- creating 1
- description 1
MdmCube class
- description 1
MdmCube objects
- associations 1
- corresponding to a fact table or view 1
- example of creating 1
MdmDatabaseSchema objects
- creating 1
- definition 1
- owner of top-level objects 1
MdmDerivedAttribute class
- description 1
MdmDerivedMeasure objects
- description 1
MdmDescription objects 1
- associations 1
MdmDescriptionType objects
- associations 1
- creating 1
MdmDimension classes
- description 1
MdmDimensionLevel objects
- creating 1
- description 1
MdmDimension objects
- creating 1
- example of getting related objects 1, 2
- related MdmAttribute objects 1
MdmHierarchy class 1
MdmHierarchyLevel class
- description 1
MdmHierarchyLevel objects
- creating 1
- mapping 1
MdmHierarchy objects
- creating 1
MdmLevelHierarchy objects
- creating 1
- description 1
MdmMeasure objects
- creating 1
- description 1
- inputs of 1
- origin of values 1
MdmMemberListMapOwner interface
- implemented by MdmPrimaryDimension 1
MDM metadata model
- description 1
MdmMetadataProvider class
- associations with MdmSchema subclasses 1
MdmMetadataProvider objects
- creating 1
- description 1, 2
MdmObject class
- 10g accessor methods for descriptions 1
- 11g methods for descriptions 1
- associations with descriptions 1
MdmOrganizationalSchema objects
- description 1
mdm package
- description 1
MdmPrimaryDimension class
- interfaces implemented by 1
MdmPrimaryDimension objects
- creating 1
- description 1
MdmQuery interface
- implemented by MdmPrimaryDimension 1
MdmRootSchema class 1
MdmRootSchema objects
- description 1
MdmSchema class
- associations between subclass and MdmMetadataProvider 1
MdmSchema objects
- getting contents of 1
- subclasses of 1
MdmSingleValuedAttribute class
- description 1
MdmSource class 1
MdmStandardDimension objects
- creating 1
- description 1
MdmSubDimension class 1
MdmTable objects
- getting 1, 2
MdmTimeDimension objects
- creating 1
- description 1
MdmValueHierarchy class
- description 1
MdmValueHierarchy objects
- example of 1
MdmViewColumn class 1
MdmViewColumn objects 1
MdmViewColumnOwner interface 1
- implemented by MdmPrimaryDimension 1
measure folders
- represented by MdmOrganizationalSchema objects 1
MeasureMap objects
- contained by a CubeMap 1
- creating 1
measures
- as dimensional data objects 1
- creating 1
- dimensioned by dimensions 1
- getting values from 1
- MdmMeasure objects representing 1
- sources of data for 1
MemberListMap objects
- creating 1
members
- of an MdmDimension 1
- of an MdmDimensionLevel 1
metadata
- creating 1
- creating a provider 1
- discovering 1
- mapping 1
metadata model
- implementing 1
- MDM 1
MetadataObject interface
- implemented by MdmPrimaryDimension 1
metadata objects
- classifying 1
- creating OLAP 1
- getting and setting names for 1
- getting by ID 1
- in example programs 1
- OLAP 1
- renaming 1
- representing data sources 1
- restricting access to 1
- supporting legacy 1
- top-level 1
- unique identifiers of 1
metadata package
- description 1
- subpackages 1
metadata reader modes 1
MetadataState class 1
- example of implementation 1
movingTotal method
- example of 1
multidimensional metadata objects
- corresponding to dimensional data model objects 1
- corresponding to relational objects 1
multilingual attributes 1
multiple user sessions 1

N

names
- getting and setting for metadata objects 1
namespaces
- description 1
nested outputs
- getting values from a Cursor with, example 1
- of a Source, definition 1
nullSource method 1
null Source objects
- definition 1
NumberParameter objects
- example of 1

O

ojdbc6.jar file 1
olap_api.jar file 1
OLAP Java API
- description 1
- required class libraries 1
- sample schema for examples 1
- software components 1
- uses of 1, 2
OLAP metadata 1
OLAP metadata objects 1
OLAP views
- description 1
- getting name of cube view 1
- getting name of dimension or hierarchy view 1
- populating attribute hierarchy lineage in 1
ORACLE_HOME environment variable 1
OracleConnection objects
- creating 1
OracleDataSource objects
- creating 1
Oracle OLAP
- database administration and management tasks related to 1
Oracle Technology Network (OTN) 1
outputs
- getting from a CompoundCursor, example 1
- getting from a CompoundCursorSpecification, example 1
- getting nested, example 1
- in a CompoundCursor 1, 2
  - positions of 1
- of a Source
  - definition 1
  - hiding 1
  - obtaining 1
  - order of 1
  - producing 1
owner
- of a BaseMetadataObject 1

P

package attribute
- MdmAttribute for the PRODUCT_AWJ dimension 1
packages
- in the OLAP Java API 1
- metadata 1
parameterized Source objects
- definition 1
- description 1
- example of 1, 2, 3
Parameter objects
- description 1
- example of 1, 2, 3
parent attribute
- method for getting 1
parent-child relationships
- in a level hierarchy 1
- in hierarchies 1
pivoting cube edges, example of 1
position method 1
- description 1
- example of 1
positions
- of a CompoundCursor 1
- of a Cursor 1
- of a ValueCursor 1
- parent starting and ending 1
prefixes
- for attribute column in materialized view 1
primary Source objects
- definition 1
- result of getSource method 1
privileges
- specifying 1

Q

queries
- creating using Source methods 1
- definition 1
- dynamic 1
- represented by Source objects 1, 2
- retrieving data specified by 1
- Source objects that are not 1
- specifying data 1
- SQL, of OLAP views 1
- steps in retrieving results of 1
Query class 1
Query objects
- associating with a CubeMap 1
- creating 1
query rewrite 1

R

ragged hierarchies 1
range Source objects
- definition 1
- example of creating 1
read Transaction object 1
recursiveJoin method
- description 1
- example of 1, 2
- signature of 1
regular input
- definition 1
relating Source objects
- with inputs 1
relational objects
- corresponding to MDM objects 1
relational schemas
- for a data warehouse 1
- represented by MdmDatabaseSchema objects 1
- sample 1
relations
- reversing with the value method 1, 2
removeValue method
- example of 1
removing
- elements in a join operation 1
resource package
- description 1
reversing relations
- example of 1, 2
REWRITE_MV_OPTION 1
REWRITE_WITH_ATTRIBUTES_MV_OPTION 1
root schema 1, 2
root Transaction
- definition 1
rotating cube edges, example of 1

S

sample analytic workspace 1
sample schema
- used by examples 1
schemas
- getting MdmDatabaseSchema for 1
- metadata objects representing 1
- represented by MdmDatabaseSchema objects 1
- sample 1
- star 1
selecting
- by position 1
- by time series 1
- by value 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
- elements to include in a join operation 1
selectValue method
- example of 1, 2, 3
selectValues method
- example of 1, 2, 3
session package
- description 1
sessions
- creating a UserSession object 1
- sharing connection 1
setAllowAutoDataTypeChange method 1, 2
- example of 1, 2
setConsistentSolveSpecification method 1
- example of 1
setCreateAttributeIndex method 1
setETAttrPrefix method 1
setExpression method
- example of 1
setJoinCondition method 1
setKeyExpression method
- example of 1
setLanguage method 1
setMultiLingual method 1
setName method 1
setPopulateLineage method 1
setQuery method
- example of 1
setShortValueDescriptionAttribute method 1
setTimeSpanAttribute method 1
setValueDescriptionAttribute method
- example of 1
setValue method
- of an MdmDescription 1
- of a Parameter, example of 1, 2, 3
sharing connection 1
SID (system identifier) 1
SingleSelectionTemplate class 1, 2, 3, 4
skip-level hierarchies 1
slower varying Cursor components 1, 2
sortAscending method
- example of 1
sorting hierarchically
- example of 1
sort order
- determined by comparisonRule parameter 1
Source class
- basic methods 1
- subclasses of 1
SourceDefinition class 1, 2
SourceGenerator class 1
- example of implementation 1
Source objects
- active in a Transaction object 1
- base of a join operation 1
- data type
  - definition 1
  - getting 1
- dimensioned 1
- elements of 1
- getting ID of 1
- inputs of
  - a derived 1
  - a primary 1
  - definition 1
  - matching with a Source 1
  - obtaining 1
  - types 1
- kinds of 1
- methods of getting 1
- modifiable 1
- outputs of
  - definition 1
  - obtaining 1
- parameterized 1
- representing queries 1, 2
- SourceDefinition for 1
- subtype
  - definition 1
  - obtaining 1
- type
  - definition 1
  - obtaining 1
source package
- description 1
span of a value in a Cursor
- definition 1, 2
SpecifyAWValues.java
- example program 1
SQL
- getting generated 1, 2
- queries of OLAP objects 1, 2
- queries of OLAP views 1
SQLCursorManager class 1, 2
SQL data types
- allowing automatic changing of 1, 2
- specifying for an MdmBaseAttribute 1
- specifying for an MdmBaseMeasure 1
star schema 1
StringParameter objects
- example of 1, 2
subtype of a Source object
- definition 1
- matching an input 1
- obtaining 1
syntax package
- description 1

T

table view
- navigating Cursor for, example 1
target dimension
- of an attribute 1
Template class 1
- designing 1
- example of implementation 1
Template objects
- classes used to create 1
- for creating modifiable Source objects 1
- relationship of classes producing a dynamic Source 1
- Transaction objects used in 1
templates
- bind variables in XML 1
- exporting XML 1, 2
- importing XML 1, 2
time series
- selecting based on 1
times method
- example of 1
time span
- attribute 1
- of a time dimension 1
TopBottomTemplate class 1, 2, 3
top-level metadata objects
- creating 1
- defined 1
- getting 1
- listed 1
Transaction objects
- child read and write 1
- committing 1, 2
- creating a Cursor in the current 1
- current 1
- example of using child 1
- getting the current 1
- preparing 1
- read 1
- rolling back 1
- root 1
- setting the current 1
- using in Template classes 1
- write 1
transaction package
- description 1
TransactionProvider
- provided by DataProvider 1
tuple
- definition 1
- in a Cursor, example 1
- specifying a measure value 1
type of an Source object
- definition 1
- obtaining 1

U

unique dimension member values 1
unique identifiers
- of a Source 1
- of dimension members 1
- of metadata objects 1
unique key attributes 1
UserSession objects
- creating 1
- sharing connection 1

V

value-based hierarchy 1
ValueCursor objects
- getting from a parent CompoundCursor, example 1
- getting values from, example 1
- position 1
Value data type 1
value method 1
- description 1
- example of 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
values
- of a Cursor 1, 2
- of the elements of a Source 1
value separation string 1
views
- materialized 1
- OLAP 1
virtual Cursor
- definition 1
visible parameter
- of a join method 1
void Source objects
- definition 1

W

write Transaction object 1

X

XMLParserCallback interface 1
xmlparserv2.jar file 1
XML templates
- bind variables in 1
- controlling attribute export 1
- exporting 1, 2
- importing 1, 2
XMLWriterCallback interface 1