Contents

• Introduction
  • EXODUS
  • How Shore differs from EXODUS
• Basic Shore System Concepts
  • The Big Picture
  • Shore Object Basics
  • File System Features
    • Shore Object Namespace
    • Legacy Unix Tool Support
  • Object-Oriented Database Features
    • The Shore Type System
    • Shore Language Bindings
    • Other OODB-Like Services
• The Shore Architecture
  • Peer-to-Peer Server Communication
  • Shore Software Components
    • The Language-Independent Library
    • The Shore Server
  • Some Implementation Details
    • Cache Consistency
    • Transaction Management
    • OID Implementation
• Status of Beta Release
• Conclusion
• References
• List of Figures