Re: [Gnue-dev] GEAS Object Life Circle Proposal

[Jan Ischebeck]

Hallo Reinhard,

On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 05:11:30PM +0200, Reinhard Mueller wrote:
> 1. Not sure if we should generally lock an object when a "local copy" is
> created. I think we should support something like that we can read
> locked an non-locked.

In my test implementation the transaction directly access the global
object for reading. Just for writing a local object is created.

> 2. I don't understand the difference between "active" and "inactive"
> state in the left half of the drawing.
inactive: the object is just data in the database
active:   the object is an python instance, which can react on function
          calls etc. 

Yesterday Daniel Baumann told me that odmg.txt defines three types of locks:
  readlock, writelock and upgradelock (=readlock+ intensional write lock). 
 
It will be a minor change to add these to the diagram.

Jan Ischebeck