Map Java objects to DynamoDB items with the Amazon SDK for Java 2.x - Amazon SDK for Java 2.x
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Map Java objects to DynamoDB items with the Amazon SDK for Java 2.x

The DynamoDB Enhanced Client API is a high-level library that is the successor to the DynamoDBMapper class of in the SDK for Java v1.x. It offers a straightforward way to map client-side classes to DynamoDB tables. You define the relationships between tables and their corresponding data classes in your code. After you define those relationships, you can intuitively perform various create, read, update, or delete (CRUD) operations on tables or items in DynamoDB.

The DynamoDB Enhanced Client API also includes the Enhanced Document API that enables you to work with document-type items that do not follow a defined schema.

The DynamoDB Enhanced Client API is discussed in the following topics.