# Castor JDO - How To's

## Introduction

This is a collection of HOW-TOs. The Castor project is actively seeking additional HOW-TO contributors to expand this collection. For information on how to do that, please see 'How to author a HOW-TO'.

## Documentation

### How to author a HOW-TO document

### How to author an FAQ entry

### How to author a code snippet

### How to author core documentation

## Contribution

### How to Contribute a Patch via Jira

## OQL

## Core features

## Cascading

## Caches

## Connection pooling

## Use of Castor in J2EE applications

## Database specifica

### How to connect to a Apache Derby instance in network server mode