Re: [appfuse-user] When to use java.io.Serializable

2007-02-20 Thread sionsmith
Thats awesome thanx, makes real sense now :) cheers sion Pete Gould wrote: > > Hi, > > Serialization is used to save an object's state as a sequence of bytes (In > clustered web applications this is crucial for failover of the HttpSession > to another server in the cluster). > > I think thi

Re: [appfuse-user] When to use java.io.Serializable

2007-02-20 Thread Pete Gould
Hi, Serialization is used to save an object's state as a sequence of bytes (In clustered web applications this is crucial for failover of the HttpSession to another server in the cluster). I think this article explains it all fairly well, even if it is a little old: http://java.sun.com/develope

[appfuse-user] When to use java.io.Serializable

2007-02-20 Thread sionsmith
hi all, i'm not new to Java or Jsf but i am a little confused about when i should be implementing java.io.Serializable Throughout the appfuse project Matt implements Serializable and i cant figure out why, i've never used this method before, i gather any class which implements it has to have a se