Property methods, or any member methods in general, originate from three places: the property's memberType class, the declared type class (sometimes call the "datatype" class) and the containing class definition.

The memberType is simply the type of class member - property, index, query, method, parameter - all are types of members that can be defined in a class. What isn't well known is that there is a memberType class for several memberTypes. (in the past, this was referred to as the property class) We'll focus on the property memberType here but keep in mind that the concepts extend to indexes, queries, triggers, etc.

There are two categories of property methods. Methods inherited from the datatype class collectively provide the datatype class runtime for the datatype generated specifically for a property. These methods are classmethods but they behave as if they are operating on an instance of the datatype class. That instance is passed as an argument when invoking the method or returned by the method. We think of these methods as running in a provided context.

The second category of property methods is those inherited from the memberType classes. Yes, I wrote classes - plural. That is because in addition to the memberType classes that are automatically inherited by each property, the class definition can specify additional classes as the value of the PropertyClass class keyword. To specify multiple classes simply enclose the list of classes in parentheses.

Class User.Special Extends %RegisteredObject [ PropertyClass = User.MyProperty ]
{

Property MyProperty As %String;
}

In this example, each property defined in User.Special will inherit methods implemented by User.MyProperty. Before we look at User.MyProperty we need to understand another class keyword - NoContext. There is also a NoContext method keyword. When used as a class keyword it applies to all methods that do not also specify NoContext.

The documentation for NoContext describes the code generation implications of using NoContext but does not explain what it means. Perhaps that is because the keyword name implies something other than its compile-time behavior. NoContext simply means that the method has access to the current instance. In other words, the member method does not provide its own context. What member methods do provide their own context? Datatype methods.

Why do we care about context? Simply put, datatype methods should not have the ability to mutate the object since they are intended to implement only the datatype behavior and can access only the provided value.

Class User.MyProperty [ NoContext ]
{

Method IsSpecial() As %Boolean [ CodeMode = generator ]
{
    set ivar = "i%"_$$$QN(%property)
    $$$GENERATE(" return $select(+"_ivar_"#2>0:1,1:0)")
}

}

This is a simple little example of a property method generator. When the Special class is compiled it will as an IsSpecial property method to each property defined by the class.

MyPropertyIsSpecial() methodimpl {
 return $select(+i%MyProperty#2>0:1,1:0)
}

And when you instantiate Special you can invoke this method.

USER>set special = ##class(Special).%New()

USER>set special.MyProperty = "200"

USER>write special.MyPropertyIsSpecial()
0
USER>set special.MyProperty = 201

USER>write special.MyPropertyIsSpecial()
1

I submitted some feedback to documentation regarding the content you cited.

The line in question originated from something I wrote while implementing the %On*Finally set of methods. The "calling method" in this context refers to the method that invokes the %On*Finally() method. In this case, %Save() is the calling method.

%Save may or may not initiate a transaction, depending on a few factors. If %Save does initiate a transaction then that transaction is complete prior to the %OnSaveFinally() call.

%Library.ResultSet remains in the product for backward compatibility reasons but there are better ways to execute class queries. Any class query can be projected as a table valued function (TVF). TVF's can be executed if the class query also declares SQLPROC. A TVF can be included in the FROM item list, it can be joined with other FROM items, it can be ordered, restricted and a subset of available columns made available. Here is a simple example from the Sample.Person class:

select id,name,dob from sample.SP_Sample_By_Name('Ad') order by dob desc

I populated Sample.Person with some generated data and ran the above statement:

USER>set result = $system.SQL.Execute("select id,name,dob from sample.SP_Sample_By_Name('Ad') order by dob desc")

USER>write result.%Next()
1
USER>write result.Name
Adams,Elvira X.

There is a project that will be available soon (don't ask me to define "soon") that will allow the Java programmer to load and compile sources from the local system into an IRIS Server. The IRIS Server does not need to be running on the same system where the files are located.

This example is slightly old as the current implementation of load() returns a list of items loaded and compile() returns a list of items compiled. There are load implementations that accept directories, individual files, any Java streamable, and also JAR files.

SourceLoader sourceLoader = new SourceLoader(connection);
Path path = Paths.get("path/to/samples/cls/Sample");
sourceLoader.load(path, null);
sourceLoader.compile(true);

Yes, of course "inverse" - sorry.

Persistent vs RegisteredObject - not a problem but you are calling a simple class method so we don't need any super class. I used this implementation for the IRIS Class:

Class Utils.CSW1JavaFunctions
{
    ClassMethod IrisReturn(user = "user", pass = "pass") As %Stream.GlobalBinary
    {
         try {
             set cswStream=##class(%Stream.GlobalBinary).%New()
             set cswReturn = {"user":(user), "pass":(pass) }
             do cswReturn.%ToJSON(cswStream)
             return cswStream
         } catch exc {
             write !,"Caught Exception on server: ", exc.AsSQLMessage()
         }
    }
}

And this is a crude hack at the Java code - the anonymous InputStream class could use more work but it does run for this simple example. I'll leave the rest of the InputStream coding to you.

package utils;

import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.JsonNode;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper;
import com.intersystems.jdbc.*;

import java.io.*;
import java.sql.SQLException;


public class Reader {
    public static final String CACHE_CLASS_NAME = "Utils.CSW1JavaFunctions";

    public IRISConnection connection;
    public IRIS iris;

    public Reader(IRISConnection connection) throws SQLException {
        this.connection = connection;
        this.iris = IRIS.createIRIS(connection);
    }
    public static void main(String[] args) throws SQLException {
        IRISDataSource dataSource = new IRISDataSource();
        dataSource.setServerName("localhost");
        dataSource.setPortNumber(51776);
        dataSource.setDatabaseName("USER");
        dataSource.setUser("_SYSTEM");
        dataSource.setPassword("SYS");
        IRISConnection connection = (IRISConnection) dataSource.getConnection();
        Reader reader = new Reader(connection);
        try {
            JsonNode jsonNode = reader.execute("IrisReturn", "java", "jpass");
            System.out.println(jsonNode.toString());
        } catch (Exception exc) {
            exc.printStackTrace();
        }
    }

    public JsonNode execute(String method, Object... args) throws Exception {
        ObjectMapper mapper = new ObjectMapper();
        JsonNode jsonNode = null;
        try {
            IRISObject data  = (IRISObject) iris.classMethodObject(CACHE_CLASS_NAME, method, args[0], args[1]);
            InputStream is = new InputStream() {
                byte[] buffer;
                int pos = 0;
                int len = -1;

                @Override
                public int read() throws IOException {
                    if (pos >= len) {
                        getBuffer();
                    }
                    if (len == -1) {
                      return -1;
                    }
                    return buffer[pos++];
                }

                void getBuffer() {
                    pos = 0;
                    IRISReference readLen = new IRISReference(3200);
                    String string = (String) data.invoke("Read", readLen);
                    if (readLen.getLong() == -1) {
                        buffer = null;
                        len = -1;
                    } else {
                        buffer = string.getBytes();
                        len = buffer.length;
                    }
                }
            };

            jsonNode = (JsonNode) mapper.readTree(is);
            return jsonNode;
        } catch (Exception ex) {
            ex.printStackTrace();
        }
        return null;
    }
}

Running this produces this output:

/usr/lib/jvm/adoptopenjdk-11-hotspot-amd64/bin/java -javaagent:/home/...
{"user":"java","pass":"jpass"}

Process finished with exit code 0

You can. Two different ways but both utilize the External Java Server with gateway connections. That is the same mechanism employed by LOAD DATA. If you have an example of what you want to do then I can provide you with a demo - using both options.

Use the IRISList class:

        IRIS iris = IRIS.createIRIS(connection);

        IRISList list = new IRISList();
        list.add("this is a string");
        list.add(100);
        iris.set(list, "test",1);

USER>zw ^test
^test(1)=$lb("this is a string",100)