nt and stored in the storage when it is referenced from some other persistent object and
<code>store</code> method of that object was invoked. So there is no need (but it is possible) to explicitly 
assign object to the storage.<P>



The storage has one special <I>root</I> object. Root object is the only persistent object accessed in the special
way (using <code>getRootObject</code> method). All other persistent objects are accessed in normal way:
either by traversing by references from another persistent 