Issues in the Design of a Reflective Library for Checkpointing C++ Objects

  • Authors:
  • Mangesh Kasbekar;Chita R. Das;Shalini Yajnik;Reinhard Klemm;Yennun Huang

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-;-;-

  • Venue:
  • SRDS '99 Proceedings of the 18th IEEE Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems
  • Year:
  • 1999

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Abstract

Object Persistence is an important feature of Object-oriented languages. The C++ language specification does not include or discuss any method of providing persistence for C++ objects. Several schemes have been developed for adding persistence to C++. Some of them require persistent objects to be allocated and treated differently than non-persistent objects, while some others require the programmer to provide vital parts of the persistence mechanism. It is desirable to make the persistence feature transparent, but the nature of C++ makes it difficult. This paper discusses in detail the various interesting language issues to be considered for adding persistence to C++ and how they lead to the design of the reflective object-checkpointing library, Member Analyzer.