** Reply to message from David Byrden <> on Tue, 29 Oct 2002
12:34:16 +0000
> "Danny Ayers" <> wrote:
> >> it's relatively simple to modify data saved from version x to
> >> allow loading into version x++, something that can't be done with Java's
> >> own serialization....
> Actually, Java serialisation HAS a powerful versioning capability.
> It requires adding custom nontrivial code to the class, or at least
> to the later versions of the class; but it can be done.
Larry Cable once apologised to me for 2 things in Java, while he was still at
Sun: applets & Java serialisation. He felt then that XML was a far better
solution than Java serialisation. Not that I've kept up with how Java
serialisation has moved on since then (2000), but I wonder if it has really
improved enough, particularly the fact that deserialisation was slower than
parsing the equivalent XML.
Cheers,
Tony.
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