java serialization supports any graphs including cycles
Ah, My fault. I should have investigated the java serialization mechanism more. It indeed allows circular references.
So in a sense this solves most of our problems!
if it is hierarchical why not make it so there is XML serialization - it
would be much more robust and able to survive internal changes in Java
classes if there is well defined format for XML describing *context state.
Yep, if we stick to the oneway hierarchy we can have an XML serialization as well.
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Ajith Ranabahu
