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This paper describes an approach to providing object persistence in object-oriented programming languages without modifying the run-time system or the language itself. By successively applying design patterns, such as the Serializer, Factory Method, and Strategy, we develop an object-oriented framework for providing object persistence. The advantages of object-orientation are highlighted: structured classification through class-hierarchies, extensibility and promotion of reuse. The framework clearly separates persistence control from storage control. A hierarchy of different storage types, useful in different application domains, is introduced. The framework does not rely on any kind of special programming language features. It only uses basic object-oriented programming techniques, and is therefore implementable in any object-oriented programming language. An experimental implementation in Ada 95 is presented.
Author(s): Kienzle J, Romanovsky A
Publication type: Report
Publication status: Published
Series Title: Department of Computing Science Technical Report Series
Year: 2000
Pages: 10
Report Number: 688
Institution: Department of Computing Science, University of Newcastle upon Tyne
Place Published: Newcastle upon Tyne
URL: http://www.cs.ncl.ac.uk/publications/trs/papers/688.pdf
