Persistent Object Systems: Design, Implementation, and Use

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-VIII

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2. Session 1: Overview

   • Graham N. C. Kirby

   Pages 1-3

3. A Framework for Persistence-Enabled Optimization of Java Object Stores

   • David Whitlock, Antony L. Hosking

   Pages 4-17

4. Architecture of the PEVM: A High-Performance Orthogonally Persistent Java™ Virtual Machine

   • Brian Lewis, Bernd Mathiske, Neal Gafter

   Pages 18-33

5. Session 2: Overview

   • Stephen M. Blackburn

   Pages 34-35

6. A Spatiotemporal Model as the Basis for a Persistent GIS

   • Erik Voges, Sonia Berman

   Pages 36-54

7. Experience with the PerDiS Large-Scale Data-Sharing Middleware

   • Marc Shapiro, Paulo Ferreira, Nicolas Richer

   Pages 55-69

8. Toward Pure Polylingual Persistence

   • Alan Kaplan, John V. E. Ridgway, Bradley R. Schmerl, Krishnan Sridhar, Jack C. Wileden

   Pages 70-83

9. Session 3: Overview

   • Richard Jones

   Pages 84-86

10. Transactional Remote Group Caching in Distributed Object Systems

    • Magnus E. Bjornsson, Liuba Shrira

    Pages 87-99

11. Platypus: Design and Implementation of a Flexible High Performance Object Store

    • Zhen He, Stephen M. Blackburn, Luke Kirby, John Zigman

    Pages 100-124

12. Evaluating Partition Selection Policies Using the PMOS Garbage Collector

    • David S. Munro, Alfred L. Brown

    Pages 125-137

13. TMOS: A Transactional Garbage Collector

    • John Zigman, Stephen M. Blackburn, J. Eliot B. Moss

    Pages 138-156

14. Session 4: Overview

    • Antony L. Hosking

    Pages 157-160

15. The Memory Behavior of the WWW, or The WWW Considered as a Persistent Store

    • Nicolas Richer, Marc Shapiro

    Pages 161-176

16. A Comparison of Two Persistent Storage Tools for Implementing a Search Engine

    • Andrea Garratt, Mike Jackson, Peter Burden, Jon Wallis

    Pages 177-186

17. Session 5: Overview

    • Liuba Shrira

    Pages 187-188

18. An Approach to Implementing Persistent Computations

    • Ewa Z. Bem, John Rosenberg

    Pages 189-200

19. Transparent Orthogonal Checkpointing through User-Level Pagers

    • Espen Skoglund, Christian Ceelen, Jochen Liedtke

    Pages 201-214

20. An Overview of Ulisse, a Distributed Single Address Space System

    • Gianluca Dini, Giuseppe Lettieri, Lanfranco Lopriore

    Pages 215-227

The Ninth International Workshop on Persistent Object Systems (POS 9) took place at the SAS Radisson Hotel in Lillehammer, Norway, from 6th to 8th September 2000. Previous workshops in the series have been held in Scotland (1 and 2), Australia (3), the USA (4), Italy (5), France (6), and the USA (7 and 8). In keeping with those workshops, POS 9 was short but intensive, fitting 28 papers and panel sessions, a boat 1 excursion, and some memorable meals into two and a half days. The participants’ concentration was no doubt helped by the Northern European weather that prevailed for most of the workshop. Continuing a trend experienced over the previous few workshops, POS 9 had difficulty attracting a high number of papers. Of course it is hard to tell whether this is a problem with the field of persistent systems itself, or merely a consequence of the increasing number of workshops, conferences, and journals competing for submissions. In his Epilogue to the proceedings, Ron Morrison makes some interesting suggestions for possible improvements to future POS workshops. Out of a total of 26 submitted papers, 19 were accepted for presentation at the 2 workshop. Breaking down by region, 6 1/2 came from the USA , 1 from Africa, 3 1/2 from Australia, and 8 from Europe. In a new development for POS, an equal number of papers came from England and from Scotland.

• Action
• Java
• WWW
• middelware
• object
• optimization
• systems architecture

• School of Computer Science, University of St. Andrews, St. Andrews, Fife, UK

  Graham N. C. Kirby, Alan Dearle

• Simula Research Laboratory, Oslo, Norway

  Dag I. K. Sjøberg

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