[2566] in java-interest
Re: passing object
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Thomas Ball)
Wed Oct 4 19:06:06 1995
Date: Wed, 4 Oct 1995 14:22:17 -0700
From: Thomas.Ball@Eng.Sun.COM (Thomas Ball)
To: lliang@bellcore.com
Cc: java-interest@java.Eng.Sun.COM
No, there is not. Object copying is a hard problem, one many papers have
been and will be written. There is no generic support for it in Java.
Application-specific object copying is easier -- you have to decant and
recant the object's stateful information by passing it as a stream of
primitive types. The exception is Strings, which can be passed using
readUTF and writeUTF. Arrays are best sent by first sending the array
length, followed by each element -- this way the receiver can allocate
the correctly-sized array before initializing each element. Note that
you also own the burden of synchonization between these objects.
Tom
> From daemon@java Tue Oct 3 19:41:03 1995
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> Is there a generic way to pass objects on a stream? The stream API
> seems only support the builtin types.
>
> Larry
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