Subject: ObjStore 1.30
From: Joshua Pritikin <[email-masked]>
Date: 9 Mar 1998 18:58:21 GMT
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl.announce,comp.lang.perl.modules

=head1 NAME

ObjStore - Perl Extension For C<ObjectStore> OODBMS

=head1 SYNOPSIS

The new C<SQL> and the sunset of relational databases.

=head1 DESCRIPTION

ObjectStore is the market leader in object-oriented databases
http://www.odi.com (NASDAQ: ODIS).  They use a unique Cache-Forward
Architecture to make persistent data available in literally the most
efficient manner possible.

Prior to this joining of forces: ObjectStore was too radical a design
decision for many applications; and perl5 did not have a simple way of
storing complex data persistently.

Now there is an easy way to build database applications, especially if
you are concerned about preserving your ideals of data encapsulation.

=head1 WHAT IS PERSISTENT PERL?

It's just like normal perl, except that you can create data that
doesn't go away when your program exits.  This more permenant data
lives in files or raw disk partitions that are divided into databases.
And databases are comprised of...

=head1 PREREQUISITES

If you want to find out, you need:

- ObjectStore OODBMS (see http://www.odi.com; evaluations are available!)

- Perl 5.004_04 (or perl 5.005, once released)

- Tree::Fat & Test perl extensions

- ExtUtils::ExCxx (only needed on Digital UNIX, HP (5.x), OS/2 (3.x),
  or MS Windows NT/95; send email)

See http://www.perl.com/CPAN/authors/id/JPRIT/ !

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# RECENT CHAN@ES #
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** 03-06-98 RELEASE 1.30

- Instant, effortless event dispatching for network distributed perl
objects using dynamic transactions.  (See ObjStore::Process :-)

- posh now persists command history from prior sessions (5.004_58+).

** 02-21-98 RELEASE 1.29

- Complete, nesting, tied array support (5.004_58+).

- Rewrote ObjStore::AppInstance to eliminate unnecessarily confusing
data flow.  The new version is NOT backward compatible.