Introduction to the Kodo Development Workbench
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## Introduction to the Kodo Development Workbench

Kodo comes with a standalone GUI environment to visualize, edit, and maintain a JDO application throughout the development lifecycle. By providing seamless access to all of Kodo's major development tools, including the Reverse Mapping Tool and Schema Tool, Kodo Development Workbench can accelerate and simplify using all of Kodo's advanced functionality.

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Note that this version of Kodo Workbench is a technology preview of a forthcoming Kodo product. This release may contain some usability and stability bugs. In addition, the tool may be missing some features that will be in the final release version. Please report all bugs and suggestions in the `solarmetric.kodo.beta` newsgroup located at news.solarmetric.com as Kodo Workbench will not be "officially" supported until a future date.

## 1. Kodo Development Workbench Requirements

This tutorial requires that JDK 1.3 or greater be installed on your computer, and that your classpath and environment are set up as outlined in the initial setup instructions contained in README.txt.

In addition, this guide assumes a familiarity with Kodo's MetaData and Mapping system, especially as it refers to the MappingTool and MappingFactory.

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