Tycoon: A Scalable and Interoperable Persistent System Environment

We describe the Tycoon persistent system architecture that achieves a high degree of scalability and interoperability through a full integration of persistent data, programs and threads while maintaining a strict separation of storage, manipulation, modelling and representation tasks into well-defined system layers. For several of these layers alternative implementations with distinct operational support are provided that can be configured dynamically to match best the requirements of a given application. Moreover, we present Tycoons architectural contributions to enable interoperability with existing generic services like databases, user-interface toolkits and C++ program libraries.