Getting started with Mindscape LightSpeed

Published: June 10, 2007, 8:33 pm

In the weekend I was reworking a prototype of something I’m working on and I wanted to use LightSpeed to manage the data access and thought it would be appropriate as a code example of how to quickly and easily get started with LightSpeed. To clarify, I only needed LightSpeed for the persistence mechanism as opposed to the full domain modeling capability at this stage of my project. The Problem My application needed a mechanism for persisting configuration. The configuration this application stores is extensible and ideally will be extended by 3rd party plug-ins which means I needed to expose a service that can be used by these 3rd parties to store their custom configuration in a manner that will give access both to their plug-in as well as our application. I’m also a staunch hater of >300KB XML configuration files and it’s early days in the prototype Step 1: Create your model classes I have a simple configuration entity that I wanted to be able to persist to a

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