Re: Loading nodes in collection on demand

On Wed, 2004-11-10 at 10:21, Wong Liong Hung wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Realized that when calling LocalDatabase.objectForName() on a FullTreeMap
> object which has been created in the database, the readObject() method of
> the nodes the collection contains is being called. Based on that, it seems
> to me that all of the nodes in the collection gets loaded into the memory.
> The numbers of the nodes in the collection could be quite large and loading
> them would require lots of RAM.
> Should the node in the collection be loaded on demand?

NodeTreeMap does 'loading on demand'.

> What is the different between adding database object (extends OzoneObject)
> and adding serializable object (extends Serializable) into ozone collection,
> e.g. FullTreeMap?

Ozone aware collections behave just like 'normal' ozone objects. I.e.
'mere' serializables are always 'included' in an ozone object.

Cheers,
Leo

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