Guide to foundation services

Foundation Services describes basic services of the CommonPoint application system that you use when building any application. This book assumes familiarity with the frameworks and systems necessary to create a complete CommonPoint program.

Foundation Services is divided into three parts.

Part 1, "Object storage," describes how to use:

Collections--the classes you use to store groups of related objects.
Streams--the classes and protocol you use to save objects to streams and restore objects from streams.
Safe Pointers--templates you can use to ensure safe memory management of pointers.
Persistent Object Storage--random access persistent storage implemented as a disk-based dictionary.

Part 2, "Identifiers," describes how to use:

Properties--a lightweight, persistent instance store model for small collections of heterogenous objects. The File System interface uses properties extensively.
Attributes--named wrappers for arbitrary data that you want to associate with other objects. The text system is a primary user of attributes.

Part 3, "Numerical computation," describes how to use classes and global functions for floating-point operations.

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