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JUCS - Journal of Universal Computer Science

jucs

0948-695X 0948-6968

Journal of Universal Computer Science

10.3217/jucs-014-20-3333

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Research Article

D.1.5 - Object-oriented Programming D.2.2 - Design Tools and Techniques D.3.3 - Language Constructs and Features H.2 - DATABASE MANAGEMENT

UCL-GLORP - An ORM for Common Lisp

Leitão

António Menezes

aml@gia.is.utl.pt 1

Technical University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal

Technical University of Lisbon

Lisbon

Portugal

Corresponding author: António Menezes Leitão (aml@gia.is.utl.pt).

Academic editor:

2008

28 11 2008

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António Menezes Leitão

This article is freely available under the J.UCS Open Content License.

Abstract

UCL-GLORP is a Common Lisp implementation and extension of GLORP (Generic Lightweight Object-Relational Persistence), an Object-Relational Mapper for the Smalltalk language. UCL-GLORP is now a mature framework that largely extends GLORP and that takes advantage of some of Common Lisp unique features. This paper illustrates UCL-GLORP and discusses some of the challenges that we faced in order to find suitable replacements, in Common Lisp, for some of the more esoteric features of Smalltalk that were explored by GLORP.