5. Adding your own classes to the PHENIX Federation

The procedure to do that should include the following steps:

1. Take a look at PdbCal tutorial (Pollack's tutorial can be of some help also ...) and follow the instructions explained there (mind that those pages are not fully up-to-date).
2. Test your new persistent classes with your own private Federation (see 4. Setting up your test Federated Database) initialized with the schema of the main PHENIX Federation to make sure that they also behave well with all other PHENIX classes around.:

> ooschemadump -outfile off_schema.dump $PHENIX_FD_BOOT
> ooschemaupgrade -infile off_schema.dump /phenix/data24/${USER}/objy/myFDB_BOOT

3. If your new classes compile, link and work as you expected, then include them in the official PHENIX Federation. To know more precisely how the official PHENIX schema is updated every night take a look at Nightly rebuilds and updates to the database schema.