First International Workshop on Persistence and Java

These proceedings record the First International Workshop on Persistence and Java, which was held in Drymen, Scotland in September 1996. The focus of this workshop was the relationship between the Java languages and long-term data storage, such as databases and orthogonal persistence. There are many approaches being taken, some pragmatic and some guided by design principles. If future application programmers building large and long-lived systems are to be well-supported, it is essential that the lessonns of existing research into language and database combinations are utilized, and that the research community develops further results needed for Java. The initial idea for the workshop came from Malcolm Atkinson, who leads the Persistence and Distribution Research group at Glasgow University. The idea was one of the first fruits of the collaborative research program that was initiated between Sun Micro systems Laboratories (SunLabs) and the Glasgow group in the fall of 1995. SunLabs sponsored the workshop to cover the attendees' local costs.