On Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:19:25 -0400, Farley, Peter x23353 <[email protected]> wrote:
>Kirk, > >Pardon my ignorance, but when you say "serialization", what do you mean >by that term? "Serialization" to me has always meant synchronizing >multiple users of the same resource (the classic readers and writers >problem), and I don't see how that applies to transforming SMF to XML >(or JSON or any of the other alternatives you mentioned). > >TIA for helping to cure my ignorance. > >Peter As stated by Wikipedia: <quote> In computer science, in the context of data storage and transmission, serialization is the process of converting an object into a sequence of bits so that it can be stored on a storage medium (such as a file, or a memory buffer) or transmitted across a network connection link. </quote> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serialization ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
