Re: java serialization alternative

Can't speak to what it was back then (I didn't mess with them until 98 or
so), but today, they handle evolution in a pretty straightforward manner. I
wrote up a piece on this for developerWorks: The Busy Java Developer's Guide
to db4o, if you're interested....

Ted Neward
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> --- 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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