Can you plug-in how a CMP field is stored in the database? If not, this
would be the best first step.
Bill
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> Vincent Harcq
> Sent: Friday, June 08, 2001 3:23 AM
> To: Dev JBoss
> Subject: [JBoss-dev] CMP fields XML Serialization
>
>
> Hi,
> In CMP Entity beans, fields that can not be mapped automaticaly
> to primitive
> SQL type are
> serialized and saved as Object in the database. One problem is
> then if you
> want to change the Object, you have to take care of Serialization
> versions,...
> everything is not possible here. Another problem is if you want to give
> access
> to your db to a non Java world.
> One solution for that could be to XMLize the object to a VARCHAR/String
> format.
> The power on changes of the Object will be more powerfull by
> implementation
> of
> method like "importXML" and "exportXML".
>
> What do you think of a feature like that ?
>
> What I try to avoidby using that is BMP , TopLink/Castor, XML/Object
> Databases.
>
> Vincent.
>
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