Glossary

persistent

A persistent object, unlike a transient object, has a life span which does not depend on a process. In contrast to this, the life span of a transient object is limited by the life span of its process.

polymorphy

In object-oriented languages, a derived class inherits the interface of its base class(es). Polymorphy is when an object of the derived class can be used instead of an object of a base class.

In C++ we use C++ references and C++ pointers here. A pointer to a base class can refer to an object of a derived class. In order to call a method of the derived class in this case, it must already be declared as virtual in the base class. The method is then linked dynamically at runtime, depending on the current object (dynamic binding).

proxy

see stub

reference

1.An alias for an object is called a reference in C++. If you access a reference, you actually access the referenced object. The reference is thus used in the same way as an object, from the syntactic point of view.

2.The ODMG uses the term reference to refer to smart pointers, which are used to access a persistent object by dereferencing it. In C++, a reference of this kind, like a pointer, is dereferenced using the operators ->and *. Persistency Service uses

local references PMibs::MibsRef to access local persistent objects, and T-ORB uses global references to address remote objects.

referential integrity

Referential integrity relates to the relations between objects. With the exception of the 0 reference, an object can only contain references to an existing object. An object which is deleted can no longer be referenced by another object. Persistency Service and Database systems can monitor referential integrity.

remote call

A remote call, i.e. a call between two processes (generally on different machines) is implemented by sending and receiving messages.

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