The following typographical conventions are used within in this manual:

Class names are represented in monospaced font, as are method names. For example: "The Environment.openDatabase() method returns a Database class object."

Variable or non-literal text is presented in italics. For example: "Go to your JE_HOME directory."

Program examples are displayed in a monospaced font on a shaded background. For example:

import com.sleepycat.je.Environment;

...

// Open the environment. Allow it to be created if it does not 
// already exist.
Environment myDbEnv;

In some situations, programming examples are updated from one chapter to the next. When this occurs, the new code is presented in monospaced bold font. For example:

import com.sleepycat.je.Environment;
import com.sleepycat.je.EnvironmentConfig;
import java.io.File;

...

// Open the environment. Allow it to be created if it does not 
// already exist.
Environment myDbEnv;
EnvironmentConfig envConfig = new EnvironmentConfig();
envConfig.setAllowCreate(true);
myDbEnv = new Environment(new File("/export/dbEnv"), envConfig);