On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 4:00 PM, Emmanuel Lecharny <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi again, > > going a bit deeper, I'm wondering if the Dn class should implement the > Cloneable and Serializable interfaces? > > Cloneable is probably not needed, as the Dn is immutable,
+1 > and Serializable > is also useless, as we already have a DnSerializer helper class that handles > the Dn serialization. Note that we have a DnFactory class in the server > which expect the Dn class to be serializable, but this is probably not > needed, as we never serialize the associated cache to disk. As a DN has a perfect string representation a binary serialization is not required for the user.
