Straightforward Java Persistence Through Checkpointing

Dartmouth Technical Report PCS-TR98-330

	Jon Howell

Date: April 1998

URL (compressed postscript): <http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/reports/TR98-330.ps.Z> (144KB)

URL (PDF): <http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/reports/TR98-330.pdf> (112KB)

Abstract:
 Several techniques have been proposed for adding persistence to the
 Java language environment. This paper describes a scheme based on
 checkpointing the Java Virtual Machine, and compares the scheme to
 other techniques.  Checkpointing offers two unique advantages: first,
 the implementation is independent of the JVM implementation, and
 therefore survives JVM updates; second, because checkpointing saves and
 restores execution state, even threads become persistent entities.

Note:
 Superceded by a conference paper available at
 <A href="http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~jonh/research/">
 http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~jonh/research/</A>