Abstract Persistent Application Systems (PASs) are of increasing social and economic
importance. They have the potential to be long-lived, concurrently accessed, and consist of …

Reflective systems allow their own structures to be altered from within. In a programming
system reflection can occur in two ways: by a program altering its own interpretation or by it …

This introduction describes the demand for better application programming technology
before we present the hypothesis that orthogonal persistence might be such a technology …

The work presented in this thesis seeks to improve programmer productivity in the following
ways:-by reducing the amount of code that has to be written to construct an application;-by …

Persistent programming systems are designed as an implementation technology for long
lived, concurrently accessed and potentially large bodies of data and programs, known here …

A Web service is a software module identified by a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI), whose
interfaces and bindings are capable of being defined, described and dis covered. Web …

Reflective systems allow their own structures to be altered from within. Here we are
concerned with a style of reflection, called linguistic reflection, which is the ability of a …

LOQIS is a high-level, object-oriented database programming system designed for the
development of “intelligent” applications, such as teaching software, presentation systems …

Orthogonal persistence is based on three principles that have been understood for nearly 20
years. PJama is a publically available prototype of a Java platform that supports orthogonal …

Two common methods of determining type equivalence in programming languages and
database systems are by name and by structure. In this paper we will show that both …