Persistence and Upgrade in E

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To be written:

• Abstract and Overview
• In Praise of Manual Persistence
  • My EC War Story: The disaster of orthogonal-only persistence.
  • Save Less: The State-Bundle insight on the "upgrade problem"
    (ie, class/schema-evolution).
• Mechanism/Policy Separation: The need, the hope, the limits.
• Security for Mostly Manual Persistence
  • Identity Persistence: Making a hash of yourself.
  • The Parimeter Technique: Redeeming old rights for new.
  • How do I Save Thee?: Using rights amplification to serialize encapsulated objects (mostly unimplemented).
• Prototyping a Pleasant Persistence Policy
  • The TimeMachine: Building simple Vat-persistence on identity persistence.
  • SwissDBs: Unprivileged object fault handlers (only partially implemented).
• Related Work
• Conclusions
• Acknowledgements & Bibliography

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