Re: java serialization alternative

OTOH Object mappings to RDBMSs are cumbersome, fragile and create a code
dependency that is orthogonal to your regular code base.

There ain't no one magic bullet.

JK


Olivier Lefevre wrote:
> --- 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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