Transactions for Java

We present a design and implementation of transactions and general-purpose persistence for Java. These additions allow Java programmers to manipulate any Java object using transactions and provide resilience from machine failure for these objects. This extends the range of Java applicability into domains where reliability is of paramount concern; for example, network-based banking. Our design and implementation is a significant addition to Java. It extends Java's current emphasis on safety and reliability to the safe and consistent management of permanent state. Our additions take the form of syntactic extensions for transactions and runtime system support for durability and atomicity. Support for general-purpose persistence, the ability to arbitrary kinds of objects persistent, is a key aspect of the design. We provide orthogonal persistence, in which any object can be made persistent, without regard to type. We also provide persistence-by-reachability, in which an object become...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 1998
• Where: ICCL
• Authors: Alex Garthwaite, Scott Nettles
• Keywords: Additions Allow Java, General-purpose Persistence, ICCL 1998, Java's Current Emphasis, Programming Languages