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+This example shows how to map persistent C++ classes to a custom database
+schema. In particular, it shows how to map all the commonly-used constructs,
+including containers, object relationships, and composite value types.
+
+The example uses the shared_ptr smart pointer from TR1 and requires a C++ 
+compiler with TR1 support or an external TR1 implementation, such as the
+one provided by Boost.
+
+The example consists of the following files:
+
+employee.hxx
+  Header file defining the 'employee' and 'employer' persistent classes
+  as well as the 'name' composite value type. ODB pragmas are used to
+  assign custom database tables to persistent classes as well as custom
+  database types and columns to data members.
+
+employee-odb.hxx
+employee-odb.ixx
+employee-odb.cxx 
+  These files contain the database support code for the employee.hxx header
+  and are generated by the ODB compiler from employee.hxx using the following
+  command line:
+
+  odb -d <database> --generate-query --default-pointer std::tr1::shared_ptr \
+  employee.hxx
+
+  Where <database> stands for the database system we are using, for example,
+  'mysql'.
+
+  The --default-pointer option is used to make TR1 shared_ptr the default
+  object pointer.
+
+database.hxx
+  Contains the create_database() function which instantiates the concrete
+  database class corresponding to the database system we are using.
+
+driver.cxx
+  Driver for the example. It includes the employee.hxx and employee-odb.hxx
+  headers to gain access to the persistent classes and their database support
+  code. It also includes database.hxx for the create_database() function
+  declaration.
+    
+  In main() the driver first calls create_database() to obtain the database
+  instance. It then programmatically creates the database schema by executing
+  a series of SQL statements. After that the driver creates a number of
+  'employee' and 'employer' objects, sets the relationships between them,
+  and persists them in the database. Finally, the driver performs a database
+  query and prints the information about the returned objects.
+
+To run the driver, using MySQL as an example, we can execute the following
+command:
+
+./driver --user odb_test --database odb_test
+
+Here we use 'odb_test' as the database login and also 'odb_test' as the
+database name.