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The RelaX Transactional Object Management System

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RelaX (Reliable distributed applications support on UNIX) is a portable and extensible system software layer on top of UNIX-like operating system kernels supporting reliable distributed applications by a generalized transaction mechanism. The transactional object management system provides access to shared persistent objects which can be manipulated within transactions. It is complemented by a C++ language port on top. It provides fast recovery in virtual memory and efficient commit protocol processing by applying modern virtual memory management techniques of next-generation UNIX-like systems. The transactional object management system is intended, in a long range, to be merged with the object-oriented, hardware supported trusted computing base developed in the ASA project at GMD.

RelaX contributes the transaction mechanism to the ESPRIT project COMANDOS (Construction and Management of Distributed Open Systems). A prototype implementation of the transaction mechanism is running at GMD.

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    R. Kroeger, M. Mock & R. Schumann

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Kroeger, R., Mock, M., Schumann, R. (1990). The RelaX Transactional Object Management System. In: Rosenberg, J., Keedy, J.L. (eds) Security and Persistence. Workshops in Computing. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-3178-6_24

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