> One thing to consider is that River is doing marshalling, > which apparently is slightly different from serialization,
In my book, they are both the same: convert an object to an untyped data (byte/word/whatever) stream and back, restoring the original functionality of the serialized/marshalled object. > but the actual difference is not clear to me. I don't know if that is > important. That depends on what the definitions are in River's book. It looks like River isn't spelling these out clearly enough.
