Hi Cedric,
Cedric Reichenbach wrote:
> Hi everybody,
>
> I'm using XStream to serialize objects before sending them into a
> different JVM. Until now, I the JVMs were running on the same machine
> and I knew the class path of the objects, so I could create custom
> ClassLoader knowing all necessary directories and provide it to XStream.
You mean, your clients were no compiled against the types you have
serialized with XStream and you did setup a classpath on the fly, because
you knew the location of the class files?
> However, now I'm trying to send those objects to a remote application,
> which doesn't have any information about those object's classes. Since I
> would like to avoid passing around class files, is there a way of
> deserializing objects with XStream without their class files?
XStream works like Java serialization, just with XML as data representation.
To deserialize, XStream has to instantiate the classes and requires
therefore the class files. With a different set of converters and/or XStream
setup you may deserialize the XML into a differnt set of objects, but I
guess this is not what you're up to.
- Jörg
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