For current work in this area, see: https://www.snia.org/tech_activities/standards/curr_standards/npm
This is a hybrid of a functional model and an API, but is in about the same territory in that it defines the services that applications and programmers can expect/use. Thanks, --David > -----Original Message----- > From: tsv-area [mailto:tsv-area-boun...@ietf.org] On Behalf Of Bob Briscoe > Sent: Monday, August 14, 2017 7:38 AM > To: mic...@netapp.com; TAPS WG IETF list <t...@ietf.org> > Cc: tsv-area IETF list <tsv-area@ietf.org> > Subject: Old paper related to your PASTE talk > > Michio and the TAPS wg, > > While I was checking over DavidB's (excellent) TSVAREA minutes, the > discussion of the relationship between writing to non-volatile memory > and TAPS triggered an old memory. I believe this would effectively add a > requirement for persistence and/or transactional semantics to the API. > > In the distributed systems research community, there was work on an API > for persistence and transactional semantics that came up with some nice > ideas in the late 1990s. They used reflection to provide app-specific > information declaratively but still separate from app code. Obviously > the age of the work dates some of the details (e.g. use of CORBA or > Java), and there's no explicit consideration of latency, but it's still > worth trying to understand the rationale for using reflection. > > I found these two papers, that are part of the old ANSA project site > that Andrew Herbert kindly rescued from oblivion recently, and uploaded > to more stable storage (irony intended): > > Schwiderski, Scarlet, "Design and Implementation of a Persistence > Service for Java," ANSA Technical Report APM.1940.02 (January 1997) > http://www.computerconservationsociety.org/ansa/97/Primary/194002.pdf > > Wu, Zhixue, "A Reflective Component-Based Transaction Architecture" > Middleware'98 > http://www.computerconservationsociety.org/ansa/ANSAhtml/98- > ansa/external/9804tb/9804tran.pdf > > And this tech report, which I haven't read, from the Uni of Tromsø: > > Anna-Brith A. Jakobsen and Randi Karlsen, "ReflecTS; A Reflective > Transaction Service Framework for Open Applications" > https://munin.uit.no/bitstream/handle/10037/378/report.pdf;sequence=1 > via https://munin.uit.no/handle/10037/378 > > This paper gives a good starting point: > Stroud, R. & Wu, Z., "Using Meta-Object Protocols to Implement Atomic > Data Types," Distributed Syst. Engineering 952(2):168-189 In: Proc. > ECOOP'95 Vol.952 No.2 pp.168-189 (1995) > I can't find it online, but here's a scan of a tech report with the same > title and authors: https://assets.cs.ncl.ac.uk/TRs/512.pdf > > > For those interested, try searching for some variation of "transaction > OR persistence reflection metaobject middleware" > > > > > Bob > > > -- > ________________________________________________________________ > Bob Briscoe http://bobbriscoe.net/
