PERSISTENT PROGRAMMING SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DEPLOYING SELF-CONTAINING EXECUTABLE APPLICATIONS

The invention creates a self-contained executable application. A compiler compiles an application including main source code and initialization code to generate a list of objects needed for execution of the application. A processing device executes the compiled application to cause the initialization code to load the listed objects as persistent objects into a single persistent store. The processing device then stabilizes the persistent store to create the self-contained executable application which appears to a user as a single executable file.