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Reflection 1999: Meta-Level Architectures and Reflection pp 54–73Cite as

Designing Persistence Libraries in Reflective Models with Intercession Property for a Client-Server Environment

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This paper presents an architecture where persistence is added to an object-oriented reflective model in a client-server environment. When the client and the server database management system do not share a common formalism, conversion rules must be set. If the open reflective client has intercession properties and the server does not, for example, when an open reflective language is bound to a relational database management system, we show that the conversion rules may become inadequate when a designer extends the semantics of the client language. An object-oriented reflective system is reified as a metaobject model and intercession is often designed as a metaobject protocol that can be specialized. In this case, we state that the best architecture to bring persistence to a reflective client is to extend the standard metaobject protocol with a fine-grained persistence and conversion protocol. We present such a protocol, and we illustrate it with a binding between Power Classes, an open reflective language, and ObjectDriver, our wrapper to relational databases.

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  1. CERMICS / INRIA, Database Team, B.P.93, 2004, route des Lucioles, 06902, Sophia Antipolis Cedex, France

    Stéphane Demphlous & Franck Lebastard

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  1. Computer Science Department, Ecole des Mines de Nantes, La Chantrerie, 4, rue Alfred Kastler, BP 20722, F-44307, Nantes Cedex 03, France

    Pierre Cointe

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Demphlous, S., Lebastard, F. (1999). Designing Persistence Libraries in Reflective Models with Intercession Property for a Client-Server Environment. In: Cointe, P. (eds) Meta-Level Architectures and Reflection. Reflection 1999. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1616. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-48443-4_5

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