The following tutorials provide an introduction to the more advanced aspects of Jostraca. By working through them at your own pace you will gain a practical knowledge of the system. The tutorials will also suggest ways in which you can use Jostraca in your own projects.

If you have used Jostraca in a new and wonderful way, you might to like to document what you have done by writing a short tutorial to appear on this page. Please contact us at this email address: tutorial@jostraca.org. Thanks!

How CodeWriters Work

Jostraca creates a CodeWriter program from each template that does the actual work of generating the output files. This tutorial explains how Jostraca uses CodeWriters.

Basic Data Containers

A simple way to create a large number of data container classes. These can then be used as the basis for database wrappers or distributed objects.

Improving Performance

A quick description of some simple strategies to improve the performance of Jostraca.

Using Jostraca with Ant

How to integrate Jostraca into your ant build process.