| Abstract: | The main goal of the Alltalk project is to provide transparent database support to the Smalltalk programmer. As a first step towards this goal, the current version of Alltalk extends Smalltalk-80 by providing persistence to Smalltalk objects without adding a database sublanguage, new language syntax, classes or methods. This paper describes the implementation of object management in Alltalk, including database layout, database access methods, in-memory object management and high-level interface from the interpreter. It also discusses how the object manager is integrated in a unique way with the operations of the Alltalk garbage collector and interpreter. |
