Objectit

Objectit is a fictional object-centric data modeling and communication framework designed to describe, serialize, and synchronize complex object graphs across distributed systems. It emphasizes explicit object identity, referential integrity, and cross-language interoperability, aiming to reduce burden in maintaining synchronized state between services, clients, and offline stores.

Objects in Objectit carry a stable identity (OID) and a versioned state. The framework defines a human-readable schema language for types and a compact binary encoding for transmission. Changes are captured as deltas or as event streams, enabling incremental replication and event-driven architectures. A built-in query language allows traversal of object graphs and filtering by type, relationship, and state.

Architecture and tooling: Objectit offers language bindings, a central schema registry, and a runtime that can be embedded in services or devices. It includes a serializer, a change tracker, and a small in-process query engine. A server component provides storage, indexing, and pub/sub messaging for real-time updates. The ecosystem promotes offline-first patterns with sync reconciliation strategies.

History and status: Conceived in the early 2020s as an open research concept, Objectit has seen experimentation in academic projects and a few prototypes. It has not achieved broad industry standardization, and there is no single de facto implementation. Community discussions focus on interoperability, security, and scalability challenges.

See also: object-oriented programming, data serialization formats, graph databases, event sourcing.