Thank you for the explanation. Avro is a good serialization tool. I haven't looked at the codes yet. I will probably dig into the codes very soon.
On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 10:20 AM, Harsh J <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 9:33 PM, Weishung Chung <[email protected]> > wrote: > > What is the main use of org.apache.hadoop.io.ObjectWritable ? Thank you > :) > > To use any primitive Java object as a Writable without requiring it to > be implementing that interface. It will write out a class name for > every type of object you put into it along with the object itself, > when serializing - to deserialize properly. > > Maybe not so offtopic: The more I see Writables being used, the more I > feel like promoting the use of Apache's Avro instead. > > -- > Harsh J > www.harshj.com >
