I see it as an opportunity. :)
We should ask Sun what to do.... they are the "go to" people for
compatibility questions, right?
geir
George Harley wrote:
Thanks Chris, your experience on this matter is very welcome. Even if it
does make me feel a little depressed ;-)
Best regards,
George
Chris Gray wrote:
Hi George,
I wonder what lessons other class library development teams have learned
in this area ?
I guess that our experience from Wonka can be summed up as
"serialization is a PITA". Most of the time the problem can be solved,
you just never know where the next one will pop up. We advise our
cutomers against using serialization as a way to exchange data between
VMs - use XML, use Hessian, use anything except serialization. That
goes for RMI too. I guess it's easier for us to take this line in an
embedded environment than in the context of, say, J2EE.
Good luck,
Chris
