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Persistent objects are a powerful modeling tool for the design and implementation of complex software systems. Scope, lifetime, and sharing are orthogonal concepts applicable to any type of object. In order to maintain the integrity of important objects and to improve the overall system reliability, the transaction mechanism can successfully be applied to a persistent object system. This paper discusses several alternatives for the realization of transactions in such an environment. It also presents new techniques for object-oriented concurrency control and recovery, based on the notion of layered transactions.
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Brössler, P., Freisleben, B. (1990). Transactions on Persistent Objects. In: Persistent Object Systems. Workshops in Computing. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-3173-1_21
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