My boss just informed me that you should look into SPOPS (Standard Perl Object Persistance with Security), I will be looking into it as well. :)

It's also available on CPAN: SPOPS

Other options could be:

• use MLDBM as it will store complex data structures
• use a more lightweight object framework, like Class::MakeMethods::Template::Flyweight (which indexes out to data)
• or store only keys to objects, which are autovivified from some persistent store

SPOPS or an MLDBM would be ideal, but the last option is highly effective in the long-run, especially if you Memoize the object lookups in an LRU (Least Recently Used) cache.

Jeff

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