dmaclean@zog.EBay.Sun.COM (Dave MacLean) (02/22/90)
I am currently using Objectworks for Smalltalk-80 and would like to be able to store objects in a database. I would prefer some sort of object-oriented database as opposed to a relational database. Is anything available (PD or otherwise) that would allow objects to be persistent in Smalltalk? I'm using a Sun Sparcstation1. One more thing: I'm already familiar with Gemstone from Servio Logic. Are there any others out there? - dave dmaclean@Ebay.sun.com
moss@ibis.cs.umass.edu (Eliot Moss) (02/28/90)
While it's not working *yet*, Persistent Smalltalk is an active project of mine here at UMass. We have built our own Smalltalk interpreter, have a running object store, and are in the process of getting them to run together, so such a thing will exist "real soon now" (estimating 3 to 6 months). Of course, you have to live with our image, which is a slightly hacked up Parc Place image, you have to convince Parc Place to allow this thing to be licensed in such a way that my time does not get soaked up talking with lawyers, and you have to port it to the SparcStation yourself (we run DEC equipment). Now if Sun (or anybody else) wants to invest in making this software more real, I'm interested in donations in support of my research group :-) We have written a paper on some of techniques we'll be using and submitted it to OOPSLA last week. If you send me *mail* with a snail mail address in it requesting that paper, I'll see about getting you a copy. (If I get hundreds of requests, I'll have to think again.) Eliot -- J. Eliot B. Moss, Assistant Professor Department of Computer and Information Science Lederle Graduate Research Center University of Massachusetts Amherst, MA 01003 (413) 545-4206; Moss@cs.umass.edu