Berin Loritsch wrote:

Stephen McConnell wrote:

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.


I disagree. The XML provides a good stable human and machine readable for. But you want to be able to pass this form around between tools and distributed environments. XML is lame for that - but a serialized form is great.

Steve.


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