Re: java serialization alternative

--- Bob Lee <[email protected]> wrote:
> Serialization sounds good in theory, but you really want to decouple
> your code from its persistent state. [...] I think this is one of many
> reasons why relational databases are still so much more popular for
> long term persistence.

And, a contrario, that is probably one reason why pure OO databases
flopped: to deliver the expected benefits they must store objects
pretty much as they exist in the application but then you get the
same evolution headaches as with serialization. Is that correct? I
wasn't really around back then (just starting).

-- O.L.

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