Supporting persistent C++ objects in a distributed storage system

technical reportWe have designed and implemented a C++ object layer for Khazana, a distributed persistent storage system that exports a flat shared address space as its basic abstraction. The C++ layer described herein lets programmers use familiar C++ idioms to allocate, manipulate, and deallocate persistent shared data structures. It handles the tedious details involved in accessing this shared data, replicating it, maintaining consistency, converting data representations between persistent and in-memory representations, associating type information including methods with objects, etc. To support the C++ object layer on top of Khazana's flat storage abstraction, we have developed a language-specific preprocessor that generates support code to manage the user-specified persistent C++ structures. We describe the design of the C++ object layer and the compiler and runtime mechanisms needed to support it

Increasing cross-domain call batching using promises and batched control structures

Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1995.Includes bibliographical references (p. 63-64).by Quinton Y. Zondervan.M.S

Reducing cross-domain call overhead using batched futures

Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1994.Includes bibliographical references (p. 95-96).by Phillip Lee Bogle.M.S

Monitoring Multi-Party Contracts for E-Business.

"Monitoring Multi-party Contracts for E-business" investigates the issues involved in the performance of econtract monitoring of business automations in business to business e-commerce environment. A pro-active monitoring contract model and monitoring mechanism have been designed and developed. A new architecture and framework is proposed for pro-active monitorable contracts. This pro-active monitoring contract model is supported by a prototype

Function-based indexing for object-oriented databases

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1994.Includes bibliographical references (p. 167-171).by Deborah Jing-Hwa Hwang.Ph.D

Thesaurus-Based Methodologies and Tools for Maintaining Persistent Application Systems

The research presented in this thesis establishes thesauri as a viable foundation for models, methodologies and tools for change management. Most of the research has been undertaken in a persistent programming environment. Persistent language technology has enabled the construction of sophisticated and well-integrated change management tools; tools and applications reside in the same store. At the same time, the research has enhanced persistent programming environments with models, methodologies and tools that are crucial to the exploitation of persistent programming in construction and maintenance of long-lived, data-intensive application systems