Berin Loritsch wrote:
3) Don't we want many readers, but only one official writer?
No. We want many readers are a snall number of endoreced writers.
- Do we want XML (safe between JRE changes)?
Yes.
- Do we want Serialization?
Yes.
- Do we want something else intirely (i.e. bytecode embedding)?
Maybe.
I don't agree here. The *core* definition should have *one* way of defining the meta info. I'm thinking distributable here.
The special case would be something where we distribute services. The thing is that any one of these can be easily used for that purpose.
The serialization has the benefit of no interpretation, but of course we could take advantage of JDK 1.4's XML serialization.... Probably 10 times as verbose as necessary.
We might want version info for the serialization so that as the XML/binary persistence can be properly identified and interpreted if there are incompatible changes.
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