Decentralized many-to-many relationship management in an object persistence management system

A method of managing a many-to-many relationship in an object persistence management system comprising the steps of:

• detecting a relationship change with a related object;
• storing a directive in a buffer, said directive specifying a management operation for changing said relationship in a junction table;
• and,
• performing said stored directive only if an opposite directive has not been stored in a buffer associated with said related object.

A machine readable storage having stored thereon a computer program for managing a many-to-many relationship in an object persistence management system, the computer program comprising a routine set of instructions for causing the machine to perform the steps of:

• detecting a relationship change with related object;
• storing a directive in a buffer, said directive specifying a management operation for changing said relationship in a junction table;
• and,
• performing said stored directive only if an opposite directive has not been stored in a buffer associated with said related object.