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What happens if we serialize and deserialize two objects which references to each other?
To make it more clear, this is a quick example:
class A implements Serializable { public B b; }
class B implements Serializable { public A a; }
A a = new A();
B b = new B();
a.b = b;
b.a = a;
So ...
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Java serialization - advantages and disadvantages, use or avoid?
Serialization is used for persistence in Java. It may be okay to persist a few objects using serialization. But, for a large number of objects, ORM, Database etc might be better. It seems that ...
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Comparing TCP/IP applications vs HTTP applications [closed]
I'm interested in developing a large-scale user-facing website that is written in Java.
As for design, I'm thinking of developing independent, modular services that can act as data providers to my ...
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Storing object-graphs with class-evolution in Java with transformation (long time archiving)
Abstract
A common problem is to store objects (with graph), and to load them back. This is easy as long the stored object representation matches the executing code. But as time goes by, requirements ...
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Dependent Object Serialization
What's the recommended way to serialize dependent objects, especially when objects are being freshly constructed (to avoid malicious byte streams, or whatever)? For example....
After creating a ...
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1answer
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How does Java handle cyclic data references when serializing an object? [duplicate]
As an assignment question, I am asked to answer the following:
How are cycles handled? Where does the term graph come from?
In the examples given, there does not appear to be any clear trick ...
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1answer
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What is the idiomatic way to persist the data in this simple data-based application?
I'm looking at developing a simple application in Java for a game which allows a user to keep track of which items they own and how much experience they have obtained while using the item. All of this ...
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How to migrate an XML serialization framework in Java in a tightly coupled system?
I work for a company that uses XML for storing a bunch of serialized Java classes. The framework we use is Apache Betwixt (abandonded in 2008) and it's kind of pain to maintain and extend (it seemed ...
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Recommended Abstraction to transfer data over a nework than byte[] array?
I was curious, why do we prefer byte[] array to transfer data over the network and not anything else? Or if I am missing anything, what are the other ways to transfer the data over a network.
