APPARATUSES, METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR PERSISTING VALUES IN A COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT

The present disclosure is directed to persisting values in a computing environment, particularly using computer programs that run on a virtual machine. An illustrative method includes first launching a computer program, preferably within the environment of a virtual machine. The method further includes loading a plurality of classes associated with the computer program into memory by way of a special class loader. This class loader scans at least one class of classes loaded into memory for at least one persistence-annotated field within that class. The special class loader further writes byte code into a class that contains the at least one persistence-annotated field. The byte code that is added to the class causes a first object that is later instantiated from the at least one class to have the persistence-annotated field.