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Conch: Experimenting with Enhanced Name Management for Persistent Object Systems

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The name management capabilities currently provided by most existing persistent object systems (POSs) are rather limited. In particular, existing POSs tend to lack powerful and general mechanisms for forming, manipulating, controlling and reasoning about contexts. As a result, these POSs offer only weak or awkward support for large-scale data storage, multi-user computing, code reuse, interoperation of independently developed object stores and other similarly important classes of applications. As part of our work on improved name management for convergent computing systems, we have developed a framework for uniform treatment of the context and interface control facets of name management. In this paper we describe a realization of that framework, in the form of a shell-style user interface to a POS, that we are using to experiment both with the framework itself and with enhanced context control capabilities for POSs.

This material is based upon work sponsored by the Advanced Research Projects Agency under grant MDA972-91-J-1009 and by Texas Instruments under grant SRA-2837024. The content does not necessarily reflect the position or policy of the U.S. Government or Texas Instruments and no official endorsement should be inferred.

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  1. Department of Computer Science, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, USA

    Alan Kaplan & Jack C. Wileden

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  1. Department of Computing Science, University of Glasgow, 8-17 Lilybank Gardens, Glasgow, G12 8RZ, UK

    Malcolm Atkinson BA, MA, PhD, Dip.Comp.Sci., FRSE

  2. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Oregon Graduate Institute, Portland, Oregon, 97291-1000, USA

    David Maier BA, PhD

  3. Université de Paris I — Panthéon — Sorbonne, 12 Place du Panthéon, 75005, Paris, France

    Véronique Benzaken PhD

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Kaplan, A., Wileden, J.C. (1995). Conch: Experimenting with Enhanced Name Management for Persistent Object Systems. In: Atkinson, M., Maier, D., Benzaken, V. (eds) Persistent Object Systems. Workshops in Computing. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-2122-0_26

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