Persistent Programming: Requirements for a Class Library Implementation

Persistent programming is a type of programming that provides mechanisms for a programmer to create objects with lifetimes longer than the lifetimes of the system executions. The burden of le I/O coding is left up to the persistence mechanisms. While persistent programming is a new area of research there are a number issues and guidelines for extending an existing language to provide persistence. This paper discusses these issues in relation to creating a class library implementation of persistence. The issues discussed include the basics of persistent programming and a number of additional issues for providing a complete and eecient implementation .