Java is a popular, object oriented language that is runtime type safe. As such, it has been seen as an attractive basis for the implementation of orthogonally persistent systems b...
A common belief is that software designs decay as systems evolve. This research examines the extent to which software designs actually decay by studying the aging of design patter...
Abstract. Many projects have investigated the issue of storing XML in traditional database systems and exporting data in traditional databases as XML documents. However, they paid ...
The paper describes how the idea of persistent objects is integrated into the Timor programming language. The strategy adopted allows types to be instantiated at two levels: as &q...
James Leslie Keedy, Klaus Espenlaub, Christian Hei...
This paper shows how type effect systems can be combined with model-checking techniques to produce powerful, automatically verifiable program logics for higher order programs. The...