Persistent Objects Basics
Recall that when an object is instantiated by an application, it lives only as long as the application itself. Thus, if you instantiate an Employee object that contains attributes such as name, ss#, and so on, that Employee object will cease to exist when the application terminates. Figure 12.1 illustrates the traditional object life cycle that is pretty straightforward. When an application creates an object, an object lives within the confines of that application. When the application ends, the object goes out of scope. For the object to live on, it must be written to some sort of persistent storage.
Figure 12.1. Object ...
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