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+ <title>Persistent State Service status</title>
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+ <center>
+ <h1><a name="orb"></a>Persistent State Service</h1>
+ Points of contact: <a href="mailto: gontla_p@ociweb.com">Priyanka Gontla</a>
+
+ <p>Last Update: 2002/07/29 </p>
+ </center>
+
+ <p>Persistent State Service (PSS) desribes a way of making a
+ service persistent. The fact that PSS is being used by a
+ service is known only to the service (server) and not to the
+ client which makes use of the service. PSS presents persistent
+ information as storage objects stored in storage homes, to
+ quote the specification. The storage homes are the datastores
+ where the persistent data is saved. </p>
+ <br>
+ <p>The specification introduced Persistent State Definition
+ Language (PSDL), a superset of IDL with five new
+ constructs. PSDL is used to specify the interface to the
+ datastore. The PSDL file used in the application will define
+ the types that might be saved in the datastore. </p>
+ <br>
+ <p>We have a compiler, psdl_tao, which is similar to the tao_idl
+ compiler, which will process the psdl file and generate stubs
+ that are used mainly for the insertion and extraction
+ operations.
+ </p>
+
+ <a name="current"><h3>Current status:</h3></a>
+
+ <ul>
+ <li><p>The PSDL compiler understands and supports the simple
+ types like <br><CODE>
+ typdef, module, structures, interfaces.</CODE>
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p> The datastore for now is a regular file. The
+ <CODE>libTAO_PSDL_Datastore</CODE> interfaces the
+ datastore and helps write and read from the datastore.
+ The data that is saved persistently is a hash map whose
+ external id is TAO_PSDL_String, a wrapper around
+ ACE_CString and the internal id is TAO_PSDL_OctetSeq, a
+ wrapper around for CORBA::OctetSeq. </p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p> There is an example in
+ $ACE_ROOT/TAO/orbsvcs/examples/PSS which shows how the PSS
+ can be used to make a simplified naming service persistent.
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ </ul>
+
+ <a name="future"><h3>Future work:</h3></a>
+
+ <ul>
+ <li>
+ <p>Add support to the remaining types defined in PSDL.
+ </p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li>
+ <p>Use RMCast to have another form of persistency via data
+ replication.
+ </p>
+ </li>
+
+ </ul>
+
+ <P><HR><P>
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