METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MANAGING AND USING PERSISTENT STORAGE

摘要

A method and system for managing persistent memory within an information appliance provides an implementation where that persistent memory is transparent to an application programmer. A store object is provided which has defined methods for reading from and writing to the persistent memory. The store object also has defined data type representations which allow a set of data representations to be employed in the persistent memory which make efficient use of the memory and these representations are transparently converted by the store object to and from those used in the appliance. By changing the read and write methods of the store and the data representations employed, the system and method can be used with a variety of persistent storage systems without requiring any changes to application programs.