An object persistence system

Nelson Ferraz told me about object prevalence. Go to http://www.prevayler.org if you want more information about that. Another link is http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/wa-objprev/

Object prevalence will allow me to have persistent objects in Gambas, without the need of any database system.

The principle is the same as a journalized file system: each change to a persistent object must be logged, and all the persistent objects must be serialized, i.e. dumped, into a file regularly.

This will need a lot of new features in Gambas:

The advantages will be: