Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Persistence and Java

These proceedings record the Second International Workshop on Persistence and Java, that was held in Half Moon Bay in the San Francisco Bay Area, in August 1997. The focus of the workshop series is the relationship between the Java platform and longterm storage, such as databases and orthogonal persistence. If future application programmers building large and longlived systems are to be well supported, it is essential that the lessons of existing research into language and persistence combinations are utilized, and that the research community develops further results needed for the Java platform. The initial idea for the workshop series came from Malcolm Atkinson who leads the Persistence and Distribution Research Group at Glasgow University, and who is a Visiting Professor at SunLabs. The workshop series is one of the fruits of the collaboration between the Forest group at SunLabs, led by Mick Jordan, and the Glasgow group.