The GDA common library contains a set of functions which hide the low-level implementation details, apart from offering convenience functions for some tasks. The reason for hiding the low-level implementation details is to allow an easy porting of the whole libgda architecture by only really porting one library, in this case libgda-common. &libgda-common-defs-h; &libgda-common-h; &libgda-config-h; &libgda-corba-h; &libgda-error-h; &libgda-listener-h; &libgda-log-h; &libgda-quark-list-h; &libgda-thread-h; &libgda-util-h; &libgda-xml-database-h; &libgda-xml-document-h; &libgda-xml-util-h;