This volume contains papers presented at the Sixth International Workshop on Persistent Object Systems, held in Tarascon, Provence, France, from 5-9 September 1994. As in previous years, the workshop addressed the issue of how to support the implementation of very long-lived systems. Among the specific topics discussed were: how to build, maintain, and operate large persistent applications; how to measure and analyse existing systems in order to improve the quality of persistent software engineering; and how to present and provide a full range of object store functions, such as concurrency, transactions, and recovery. The resulting volume will provide essential reading for researchers and postgraduate students in software engineering and programming languages.
Object Store Engineering.- Expressing Object Residency Optimizations Using Pointer Type Annotations.- Concurrent Shadow Paging in the Flask Architecture.- Object Store Engineering 2.- Buffering Long Externally-Defined Objects.- Protection in Grasshopper: A Persistent Operating System.- An Efficient Pointer Swizzling Method for Navigation Intensive Applications.- Object Caching.- Hybrid Caching for Large-Scale Object Systems.- Prefetch Support Relations in Object Bases.- Concurrency.- Semantic Synchronization in a Persistent Object Library.- Customizing Concurrency Controls Using Graph of Locking Capabilities.- Object Store Engineering 3.- Using C as a Compiler Target Language for Native Code Generation in Persistent Systems.- Garbage Collection of Persistent Objects in Distributed Shared Memory.- Applications of Persistent Object Systems 1.- Making Real Data Persistent: Initial Experiences with SMRC.- Managing Physical Folios of Objects Between Nodes.- Analysing Persistent Language Applications.- System Evolution.- Storage Class Extensibility in the Brown Object Storage System.- Correctness of Lazy Database Updates for Object Database Systems.- Changing Persistent Applications.- Reflection and New Language Constructs.- Conch: Experimenting with Enhanced Name Management for Persistent Object Systems.- Type-Safe Linguistic Run-Time Reflection — A Practical Perspective.- START: A Linguistic Reflection Tool Using Hyper-Program Technology.- DAIS: An Object-Addressed Processor Cache.- Hardware Support for Stability in a Persistent Architecture.- Optimisation.- Object Clustering in Persistent and Distributed Systems.- Query Processing in PIOS.- Application of Persistent Object Systems 2.- Type-Safe Inter-Application Communication in the Feynman Persistent Environment.- A Toolkit to Support Scalable Persistent Object Base Infrastructures.- Keynote Discussion on Evolution in Persistent Systems.- Persistent Systems Engineering.- A Global Perspective of Schema Modification Management for Object-Oriented Databases.- Distributed Galileo: A Persistent Programming Language with Transactions.- Constructing a Domain-Specific DBMS Using a Persistent Object System.- Concluding Remarks.- Author Index.
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This volume contains papers presented at the Sixth International Workshop on Persistent Object Systems, held in Tarascon, Provence, France, from 5-9 September 1994. As in previous years, the workshop addressed the issue of how to support the implementation of very long-lived systems. Among the specific topics discussed were: how to build, maintain, and operate large persistent applications; how to measure and analyse existing systems in order to improve the quality of persistent software engineering; and how to ...