Hi, I'm curious why the new Writable interface was chosen rather than using Serializable. Handling version changes can be quite painful with standard serialization, but nothing seems to implement VersionedWritable. Introducing a new interface makes interoperation with other code more clumsy, since it means converting back and forth between standard and writable representations.
Was it for speed? If so, I have implemented something similar to writable that has the advantage that no particular interface needs to be implemented. Consequently, the standard datatypes (java.lang.Integer etc...) can be used. The idea is that IO proxies register for each class. Whatever answers result from this thread, should be incorporated into the Javadoc. Thanks, Curt
