Rene Rivera wrote:
If you are going to go through the steps to shove objects into a database you might want to consider existing domain specific solutions. For example the various databases written by Konstantin Knizhnik <http://www.garret.ru/~knizhnik/databases.html>.
Thanks very much for the link Rene, but my needs are so simple that any sort of ORM or OODBMS would be overkill. My application has a single class which needs this form of persistence, and it contains members no more complex than a std::map<string, string>. In case anyone else would be interested in a few more ORM / ORDBMS / OODBMS links, I found the following pages useful for link fodder: http://www.service-architecture.com/products/object-relational_mapping.html http://www.service-architecture.com/products/object-relational_databases.htm... http://www.service-architecture.com/products/object-oriented_databases.html Best, Andy