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An Orthogonally Persistent JavaMalcom Atkinson, Laurent Daynes Mick Jordan, Tony Printezis and Susan Spence Abstract: The language Java is enjoying a rapid rise in popularity as an application programming language. For many applications an effective provision of database facilities is required. Here we report on a particular approach to providing such facilities, called "orthogonal persistence". Persistence allows data to have lifetimes that vary from transient to (the best approximation we can achieve to) indefinite. It is orthogonal persistence if the available lifetimes are the same for all kinds of data. We aim to show that the programmer productivity gains and possible performance gains make orthogonal persistence a valuable augmentation of Java. ACM SIGMOD Record, Volume 25, Number 4, December 1996 Last revised 17 Dec 1996 Questions and comments to forest-info@sunlabs.com | ||||||||||||||||||||||