Re: non-generative record types and classes

Matthias Radestock <[email protected]> writes:

> The alternative solution is to add a bijective map between guids and
> types (or any values, really) to the application context, and make it
> part of heap (de)serialisation.

There is one major problem with this: We want the above to work not just
with SISC's heap&stream serialisation, but also *Java* serialisation,
particularly Java serialisation carried out by J2EE containers. However,
Java (de)serialisation does not have access to the application
context. In fact there may not even *be* an application context at the
time (de)serialisation takes place.

Unless somebody can think of a solution to the above, I am going to
stick with the first proposal instead, i.e. indirection of record/object
types via a symbolic environment.


Matthias.



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