Fully Integrated Data Environments Persistent Programming Languages, Object Stores, and Programming Environments

Research into Fully Integrated Data Environments (FIDE) has the goal of substantially improving the quality of application systems while reducing the cost of building & maintaining them. Application systems invariably involve the long-term storage of data over months or years. Much unnecessary complexity obstructs the construction of these systems when conventional databases, file systems, operating systems, communication systems, & programming languages are used. This complexity limits the sophistication of the systems that can be built, generates operational & usability problems, & deleteriously impacts both reliability & performance. This book reports on the work of researchers in the Esprit FIDE projects to design & develop a new integrated environment to support the construction & operation of such persistent application systems. It reports on the principles they employed to design it, the prototypes they built to test it, & their experience using it.Atkinson, Malcolm P. is the author of 'Fully Integrated Data Environments Persistent Programming Languages, Object Stores, and Programming Environments' with ISBN 9783540657729 and ISBN 354065772X.