Optimizing Orthogonal Persistence for JavaTM
Principal
investigator: Dr. Tony
Hosking
Research assistants: David Whitlock, Jiawan Chen
Former
students: Nedim Fresko, Nate Nystrom, Kumar Brahnmath, Aria Novianto This
material is based upon work supported by Sun
Microsystems Laboratories,
and by the National Science Foundation under Grant
No. CCR-9711673
Any opinions, findings and conclusions or
recomendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s)
and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National
Science Foundation (NSF) or Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Orthogonal
persistence for Java is an experimental persistent programming system for
the Java programming language, that embodies the notion of orthogonal
persistence: an approach to making application data persist between program
executions with the minimum possible effort required from the application
programs themselves. The PJama prototype of orthogonal persistence for
Java is the result of collaborative research between the Forest Project at SunLabs and the Persistence and Distribution
research group in the Department of
Computing Science at the University of
Glasgow, Scotland. As part of the Compass
Project the Persistent Programming Systems
Group at Purdue University is participating in this collaboration to
investigate optimizations for orthogonal persistence for Java, based on static data-flow analysis of
Java bytecodes, dynamic profiling of code execution, and profiling and
analysis of the persistent store. Our point of contact at Glasgow University
is Quintin Cutts, who is
focusing on runtime support for optimization.
hosking@acm.org