I think you could use image segments to save your domain objects. I 
haven't used them but as I understand it you can persist a sub-graph of 
objects to a file and load these into any image.

http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/2316
http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/1672

Regards,
Zulq.

itsme213 wrote:
> "Zulq Alam" <me at zulq.net> wrote in message news:4785F5C5.70200 at zulq.net...
>> Are you losing time recovering the image or the new code you have written? 
>> Perhaps a periodic Monticello save would be more suitable.
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> Thank you. I should separate my use cases:
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> - Auto-Save of development source-code: should use a MC save, not image 
> save. I will peer into this and try to figure how I might do it.
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> - Save (non-development) state of image to serve as low-tech database for my 
> application objects: image save.
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> Am I on the right, and safe, track now?
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> Sophie
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