GemBuilder for Smalltalk/VW User's Guide

1.1 The GemStone Object Server

1.2 GemBuilder for Smalltalk

• The Programming Interface

  • Transparent access to GemStone

• GemStone’s Smalltalk Language

• The GemBuilder Tools

1.3 Designing a GemStone Application: an Overview

• Which objects should be stored and shared?

• Which objects should be secured?

• Which objects should be connected?

• How should transactions be handled?

• How can performance be improved?

1.4 Delivery and Deployment

• Public and Private Classes and Methods

2.1 Client Libraries

2.2 GemStone Sessions

• RPC and Linked Sessions

2.3 Session Control in GemBuilder

• Session Parameters

• Defining Session Parameters Programmatically

2.4 Logging In to and Logging Out of GemStone

• Logging In to GemStone

• The Current Session

• Logging Out of GemStone

2.5 Session Dependents

3.1 Which Objects to Share?

3.2 Class Mapping

• Automatic Class Generation and Mapping

• Schema Mapping

• Behavior Mapping

• Mapping and Class Versions

3.3 Forwarders

• Sending Messages

  • Arguments

  • Results

• Defunct Forwarders

3.4 Replicates

• Synchronizing State

  • Faulting

  • Flushing

  • Marking Modified Objects Dirty Automatically

  • Marking Modified Objects Dirty Manually

• Minimizing Replication Cost

  • Instance Variable Mapping

  • Stubbing

  • Replication Specifications

• Forwarding Messages to Server Objects
  Through Replicates and Stubs

• Customized Flushing and Faulting

  • Modifying Instance Variables During Faulting

  • Modifying Instance Variables During Flushing

  • Mapping Classes With Different Formats

• Limits on Replication

  • Replicating Client Smalltalk BlockClosures

  • Block Callbacks

  • Replicating Collections with Instance Variables

3.5 Precedence of Replication Controls

3.6 Evaluating Smalltalk Code on the GemStone server

3.7 Converting Between Forms

4.1 Connecting Root Objects

• Scope

• Verifying Connections

• Initializing

  • Updating Class Definitions

4.2 Connecting and Disconnecting

4.3 Kinds of Connectors

• Connection Order

• Lookup

  • Connecting by Name

  • Connecting by Identity: Fast Connectors

4.4 Making and Managing Connectors

• Making Connectors Programmatically

  • Creating Connectors

  • Setting the Postconnect Action

  • Adding Connectors to a Connector List

  • Session Control

5.1 Transaction Management: an Overview

5.2 Operating Inside a Transaction

• Committing a Transaction

• Aborting a Transaction

• Avoiding or Handling Commit Failures

5.3 Operating Outside a Transaction

• Being Signaled to Abort

5.4 Transaction Modes

• Automatic Transaction Mode

• Manual Transaction Mode

• Choosing Which Mode to Use

• Switching Between Modes

• Auto-commit

5.5 Managing Concurrent Transactions

• Setting Locks

• Releasing Locks Upon Aborting or Committing

5.6 Reduced-Conflict Classes

5.7 Changed Object Notification

5.8 Gem-to-Gem Notification

5.9 Asynchronous Event Error Handling

6.1 GemStone Security

• Login Authorization

  • The UserProfile

• Controlling Visibility of Objects with SymbolLists

• System Privileges

• Protecting Methods

• Object-level Security

  • Object Security Policies

7.1 GemStone Errors and Exception Classes

7.2 Handling Exceptions

• User-Defined Errors

7.3 Interrupting GemStone Execution

8.1 Schema Modification

8.2 Schema Coordination

9.1 Profiling

• Profiling Client Smalltalk Execution

• Main Statistics

• Cache Inventory Statistics

• The VSD tool

9.2 Selecting the Locus of Control

• Locus of Execution

  • Relative Platform Speeds

  • Cost of Data Management

  • GemStone Optimization

9.3 Replication Tuning

• Controlling the Fault Level

• Preventing Transient Stubs

• Setting the Traversal Buffer Size

9.4 Optimizing Space Management

• Explicit Stubbing

• Using Forwarders

9.5 Using Primitives

9.6 Multiprocess Applications

• Blocking and Nonblocking Protocol

• One Process per Session

• Multiple Processes per Session

  • Coordinating Transaction Boundaries

  • Coordinating Flushing

  • Coordinating Faulting

10.1 Setting Configuration Parameters

10.2 GemBuilder Configuration Parameters

• alwaysUseGemCursor

• assertionChecks

• autoMarkDirty

• blockingProtocolRpc

• blockReplicationEnabled

• blockReplicationPolicy

• bulkLoad

• clientMapCapacity

• clientMapFinalizerPriority

• confirm

• connectorNilling

• connectVerification

• defaultFaultPolicy

• deprecationWarnings

• eventPollingFrequency

• eventPriority

• faultLevelLnk

• faultLevelRpc

• forwarderDebugging

• freeSlotsOnStubbing

• fullCompression

• gcedObjBufferSize

• generateClassConnectors

• generateClientClasses

• generateServerClasses

• InitialDirtyPoolSize

• libraryName

• pollForAsynchronousEvents

• pollForRpcResponse

• removeInvalidConnectors

• replicateExceptions

• rpcSocketWaitTimeoutMs

• serverMapLeafCapacity

• stubDebugging

• traversalBufferSize

• verbose

11.1 GemStone Launcher

• Session Parameters

• Sessions

• The Session Parameters Editor

  • Creating a new Session Parameters

  • Editing Existing Session Parameters

• Logging into and logging out of GemStone

  • Logging in to GemStone

  • Logging Out of GemStone

11.2 GemStone Launcher Menus and Toolbar shortcuts

• Browse Menu

• Session Parameters Buttons and Parameters Menu

• Sessions Buttons and Sessions Menu

• Tools Menu

• Window Menu

• About Menu

11.3 The Settings Browser

• Opening the Settings Browser

• The Settings Browser

• Buttons on the Settings Browser

  • Parameter Categorization

11.4 The System Workspace

12.1 Browsing Code

• System Browser

• Find Menu

• Symbol Dictionaries Pane and the Dictionary menu

• Classes Pane and the Class menu

• Categories Pane and the Category Menu

• Methods Pane and the Method Menu

• Text Pane

  • Text View Tabs

• Session Menu

• Window Menu

• Status Bar

• SymbolDictionary Browser

• Hierarchy Browser

• Class Browser

• Category Browser

• Method Browser

12.2 Adding and Modifying Classes and Methods

• Classes in GemStone Smalltalk

• Defining a New Class

• Modifying an Existing Class: Class Versions

• The Class Version Browser

• Adding and Modifying Methods

  • Public and Private Methods

  • Reserved and Optimized Selectors

12.3 Fileout and Filein of Class and Method Definitions

• File Out

• File In

  • Handling Errors While Filing In

• Fileout text format

12.4 The Connector Browser

• The Group Pane

• The Connector Pane

• The Control Panel

• Connector Operations

13.1 Inspectors

13.2 Debugger

• Disabling the Debugger

13.3 Breakpoints

• Step Points

• Breakpoints

• The Breakpoint Browser

13.4 Stack Traces

14.1 The Security Policy Browser

• Security Policy Pane

  • Security Policy Menu

• Group Pane

  • Group menu

• Member Pane

  • Member Menu

• Security Policy Tool Menus

  • The File Menu

  • Reports Menu

  • Help Menu

• Using the Security Policy Browser

  • Checking Security Policy Authorization

  • Changing Security Policy Authorization

  • Controlling Group Access to a Security Policy

14.2 The Symbol List Browser

• The Clipboard

• Symbol List Browser Menus

  • File Menu

  • Mode Menu

  • Edit Menu

  • Object Menu

  • Help Menu

14.3 User Account Management Tools

• User List

• User Editor

  • File Menu

  • User Menu

  • Help Menu

• Privileges Dialog

A.1 Prerequisites

• Names

• Replicating Blocks

• Defunct Stubs and Forwarders

• Shared Libraries

A.2 Packaging

B.1 Language Differences

• Selection Blocks

• Array Constructors

B.2 TimeZone handling