Oracle International Corporation

Jing Liu

Mahesh Subramaniam

James William Stamos

Curtis Elsbernd

Wayne Smith

A method and system are provided for instantiating objects for participation in information sharing relationships. According to one technique, a copy of an object is made, where the copy includes all changes made prior to a particular point in time, and no changes made after the particular point in time. The copy is used to create a second object. Data that reflects the particular point in time is stored, and subsequently used to determine which changes should be applied to the second object. Data that indicates that the creation time of the second object is stored, and subsequently used to determine which changes should be applied to the original object.

Instantiation of objects for information-sharing relationships

Techniques used in a distributed database system for simplifying copying of objects from one database system in the distributed database system to another and establishing the infrastructure necessary for the distributed system in the database systems. One application of the techniques is setting up a cache database system that has a subset of the objects in another database system and establishing a link for redirecting misses between the cache and the other database system. Also included is the infrastructure in the cache and the other database system for an authentication proxy that establishes sessions in the other database system for users to perform operations that have been redirected as a result of a miss in the cache. The techniques require only that the user supply simple descriptions of some of the objects to be copied; the techniques locate the necessary dependent objects and make objects for the infrastructure. Some of these are descriptions of the infrastructure objects that are copied to the cache and executed there and others are objects that are added directly to the other database system.

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