Title: Introduction

	<P>This book describes how to use Cayenne Persistence API to write persistent Java applications. It includes the following topics:</P>

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	<LI>&quot;Getting Started&quot; tutorials,</LI>
	<LI>Cayenne API concepts, such as ObjectContext, Persistent objects, Queries</LI>
	<LI>Deployment</LI>
	<LI>Tuning and performance optimization</LI>
</UL>


<P>See Also:</P>

<UL>
	<LI><A href="guide-to-30-features.html" title="Guide to 3.0 Features">What's New in the Latest Release</A></LI>
	<LI><A href="modeler-guide.html" title="Modeler Guide">Modeler Guide</A>: A guide to object-relational mapping (ORM) with CayenneModeler GUI tool.</LI>
	<LI><A href="remote-object-persistence-guide.html" title="Remote Object Persistence Guide">Remote Object Persistence Guide</A>: Writing distributed Cayenne client applications.</LI>
</UL>