Object Orientation with Parallelism and Persistence

Both object orientation and parallelism are modern programming paradigms which have gained much popularity in the last 10—15 years. Object orientation raises hopes for increased productivity of software generation and maintenance methods. Parallelism can serve to structure a problem but also promises faster program execution.
The two areas of computing science in which these paradigms play the most prominent role are programming languages and databases. In programming languages, one can ta...