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Wolfgang Jansen
The distribution contains classes to scan the persistence closure of an object and treat all touched data in some way, for example to store it to a file and retrieving it from from a file in the sense of class STORABLE as described in ETL.
This required the implementation of an introspection ("reflection") library, and a customized runtime environment.
The queries of class INTERNALS provide type information (e.g. how many attributes a class has, their names and types). That information is known during compile time and has be to written to the C code in order to make it available during run time. That means, the compiler had to be changed such that it writes the needed information to C code.
The change to the compiler is merely an addition, so that:
The disadvantage is that for each new compiler release the changes have to be adapted (at least as long as SE distributions do not contain an official version of STORABLE).
